Category: Research
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The Heroine’s Journey, Why I Believe It’s Bigger Than Murdock’s Blueprint
When people talk about the Heroine Archetype, Maureen Murdock’s The Heroine’s Journey: Woman’s Quest for Wholeness (1990) inevitably comes up – often treated like the gospel counterpart to Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces, (1949). And look, Murdock contributed something valuable to the conversation. She carved out space for the…
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Brighton Fringe Festival 2024!
This is the first year I feel that I’ve really made the most of Brighton Fringe Festival. Working on two shows myself, Emotions In Motion at Brighton Unitarian Church, and Marvin and the Dodgyspinners at The Rotunda Theatre, meant that I was in Brighton for the whole of May! (Rather…
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Week 2 – Marketplace Value
After taking a quick look at the United States DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending September 6, 2020, it confirmed what last week’s article had described, with remakes, trilogies and general revamping of old and overdone ideas. With DVD titles like The Aristocats, Fast and Furious and Sonic the Hedgehog,…
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Characterization and Dialogue
To write good dialogue you must step inside of your characters and have an understanding of their motivations and background. Their country, region, city, education and class all affect their speech pattern and their predisposition will affect speech rhythms. Everyone speaks slightly differently, that’s why impressionists are able to impersonate…
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Movies That Move Us
In this week’s reading I found the concept of alignment interesting. The protagonist’s response must be appropriate to the situation so the audience can become empathetic even if they don’t share the protagonist’s sensibilities. If their actions don’t make sense it throws the audience. There was a big uproar from…
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The Hero’s Journey
Stage 1 The first stage is the hero in their natural environment. This is self explanatory. Think about Frodo from Lord of the Rings, or Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. At the beginning of the story, these characters live mundane lives in their homes. In Collateral, this could be Max…
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Character checklist
Who is the protagonist? Kath Who or what is the antagonist? Neighbours or is it Evie? What are the protagonist’s main problems and obstacles? Keeping Evie alive whilst being distracted by her past, her present and Evie’s future (and on an internal level- her own future) What do they want?…
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Reflection week 4
This week I watched two films, one from 1903 and the other from 1968 and looked out how the screenplays for each changed and evolved alongside the final product. I plan to do further research by watching one more film from the late 80’s or early 90s as I find…
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Inspiration can take many shapes
The estate Kath lives on is vaguely based on where my dad lives in London, mixed with the block of flats I live in myself. It was important to me that she lives somewhere compact with many different people from all walks of life, living in close proximity. It needed…
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Script formats and history
Le Voyage dans la Lune, 1902 The script documentation leaves a lot more room for creativity in costume and scenery. From watching the film, I can see why the earlier writers in Auteur theory were all of the opinion that the director was the author. This scene document is much…
Journey Through My Mind 
