Check in & discussion of the narrative in film.
View short films created by ARCreatives women last year (see below). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq0roUA34is&t=4s Comfort Food - Carmilla Ligons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my1jDqfU0Mc&t=2s From Tuscan to the Sky - Liz Campbell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HYxwTOYMwg Ready, Set - Michelle Fennell Writing Prompt for next group: How have your grown and in what ways have you been resilient?
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Stories consist of a plot and the plot is the sequences of events that keep a story in motion (physical - actual motion & emotional energy). The plot is built from desire, obstruction, & action. Consider Joseph Campbell's A Hero's Journey. Every story has a beginning, a middle and an end. In the beginning you setup your hero and their story, then you throw something at them that is a great source of conflict and takes them into a whole heap of trouble. After facing many foes and overcoming various obstacles the hero saves the day and wins their love interest. If only writing a movie was that easy... The thing is, there are many forms of structure and some writers subscribe to one formula, while others subscribe to another. Some try not to subscribe to any and see the whole idea of structure as "evil", feeling that a story should evolve organically without rules confining ideas or obstructing the creative flow. In the end, a story should dictate the kind of structure it follows or whether it shouldn't follow a structure at all. There's no point trying to write a comedy and forcing the structure of a thriller upon it - it won't work. Well, theoretically it won't but I'm sure someone will find a way! Let your characters define the story and your story define your structure and then use a formula if necessary to tighten your script. The trick is to initially let the ideas flow without paying too much attention to structure and then in your second pass begin to focus your story and separate the wheat from the chaff. The 12 Stages of The Hero's Journey is a popular form of structure derived from Joseph Campbell's Monomyth from his book The Hero With A Thousand Faces and adapted by Christopher Vogler is the Twelve Stage Hero's Journey. This is essentially a more detailed Character Arc for your story's hero which is overlaid onto the more traditional three-act structure that many successful Hollywood movies such as Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz when analyzed appear to follow.
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