Dan Harmon, showrunner for "Community" and co-creator? of "Rick and Morty" expanded on Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces" and Will Schoder made this animated guide to illustrate the mono-myth format of storytelling.
Dan Harmon's universal story breakdown webpage
Dan Harmon expands on the theory of storytelling in his post Story Structure 103 by saying
- When you
- have a need,
- you go somewhere,
- search for it,
- find it,
- take it,
- then return
- and change things.
5-minute plots lesson 106. Lesson 105 tells you how to set up a story for TV so it goes on forever and ever and ever. Depressing, now that I see it, but instructive, nevertheless.
If you are interested in delving deeper into narrative studies Narratology thoery would be good to start looking at. Here is an intro http://www.davidlavery.net/Courses/Narratology/JHGTC/Narratology.pdf
ReplyDeleteand this book is very useful https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=jPj4Bq0H4JoC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Thank you, Rachel! I will add that to my reading list.
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