To me the three most important things that we’ve talked about in class is Campbell’s “a hero’s journey” and Vogler’s in depth breakdown of the journey, Vogler’s “character archetypes”, and Edgri’s “bone structure”. The hero’s journey helps outline what traditionally happens in a story, almost like a loose set of guidelines you can use to make a story have a better structure to it. This was useful because it helped us think of different ways to structure our story so it would become easier to understand and more enjoyable. Vogler’s archetypes helped us define each character to know exactly where they stood and it will hopefully let us continue develop them as we work on our project more. The bone structure is just that extra step that can really help you define your character. Even if your audience doesn’t know everything you but into developing your character’s bone structure the main point is that it is something you will know so better judge how your character might react to a situation.
One of the other things we’ve talked about in class is “premise”. While I’m not saying this element is useless, it just isn’t a tool we’ve used as much. Mainly because judging the premise of your story or of your character is challenging and something that really needs to be thought out a great deal.
When doing our group project all of these references became useful because we could use them to come up with a better story and of how we should present it.
While these tools have helped us we still have a bit of a way to go, before we have developed this project to its fullest. I feel that we still need to work on some of the tone or the style of the story so it can effectively be perceived by the audience. We also need to work on more of the sub-text in the work as well so we can subtly convey what it happening in the short film instead of just being extremely blunt with our imagery. I believe that effect will be much more powerful. But I think our project is coming along really well and all of my group members are hard working and beneficial to the group. I’m glad to be a part of this one instead of one that is unorganized and not very creative. One thing is for sure, I can’t wait to present.
