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be embarrassed what did you do you thought it was a joke too oh come on an angel shows up of course it s not a joke who would think such a thing you told the angel he was crazy well serves you right if you can t talk any more er how long are you going to be silent for until the baby arrives i guess we d better buy some more writing equipment and you really need to start working on your mime skills tags audio christmas creative drama categories logoshope brummie sea brummie s back maybe post author by mp daniel post date 12 august 2018 dear neglected blog i think i should start writing again i ve realised how much i miss it i don t know how often i ll manage it but we ll see brief update for the sake of historical thingness as euan might say we re back on the logos hope 4 of us now this time for probably 2 years we ve been on board almost a year now and are currently on break thus finding the time for writing and motivation to start again life on the ship is spectacularly busy with 2 children essentially any time that s not work while the kids are awake i try to spend with them and when they re asleep then with my wife but i m realising i do need more introvert me time to help make the time with kids wife better quality blogging kind of takes a back seat as i feel like the writing i want to be doing is all fiction and the writing i should be doing is all email work related anyway hopefully writing here helps me feel more inspired to write other stuff that i need to and also is perhaps interesting for you dear reader categories uncategorized story telling part 3 the hero s journey aka story circle post author by mp daniel post date 6 june 2015 so this is part 3 of my seminar workshop on story telling that i did with the logos hope on board events team here s part 1 and part 2 there s an interesting alternative theory called the hero s journey or monomyth there s books written about this some really cool ideas a very approachable version is by dan harmon the creator of community ant webb was the guy who introduced me to both community and the hero s journey we ve been discussing it and used it as part of matt s blog the hero s journey theory says good stories are circular you end up back where you started they re a journey from home from comfort from the concious down into the subconscious uncomfortable far away place and back eventually home again of course changes happen along the way the full theory has all kinds of freudian stuff to do with being forced out of the mothers arms by the call of the father eventually defeating the father and returning eventually as a mother or father all that seriously freud had issues also there s loads of details that are reasonably important and do make the story more compelling but also with much added complexity so lets go look at dan harmon s story circle instead he takes the circle concept and breaks it into 8 simple parts we start off at you this is where you the audience relate to the main character s preferably the character should be in a place of comfort or at least be connected to some kind of easy to relate to home situation this could be a sailor at sea on the bridge or a little bear playing a balancing game or garion at faldor s farm a new student enrolling at community college etc it s a starting point that the audience can relate to and feel comfortable understanding they don t have to dig deep emotionally to connect with the main character it happens automatically this is the concious mental understanding area next is the need something isn t right or some how the stable situation will be pushed off balance this is pretty close to the problem concept from the 3 act play model note we re still basically in the stable conciousness so since there s a need i guess we d better go do something about it this is where the hero decides to actually leave their safe familiar environment and go out into the world to solve the problem we finally dep art the concious and head into the scary subconscious unconscious the go ing can often be the most emotional part of the story or at least the most emotionally motivated or driven part once the hero is actually off fighting dragons and saving maidens they re too busy actually doing stuff to be all soppy and emotional now that we ve actually left comes the big difficult part of the story the seek ing or search ing we may not exactly know what it is we re looking for yet but we ll find out many different avenues can be explored different people met etc this can be long arduous and challenging the main character should be growing and changing here eventually we find what we re looking for this is where we can start looking at the more interesting parts of the theory up until now it s all been pretty pedestrian but behold the magic each point on the circle has an opposite point ok to be honest that s more like geometry than magic but whatever they re kind of similar find is directly opposite on the circle from you for instance all opposites have extremely strong ties to each other so you signifying conscious comfort and familiarity can either be used here with direct parallels or with polar opposites but either way it s linked garion is tempted most by torak by images of family and a safe life with aunt pol little bear realises it s dark and thinks about going home frodo and sam reminisce about home talking about planting the acorn from loth lorian in the shire deciding it s all worth it to stop sauron s hoards pillaging and burning everything they hold dear let s move on so we ve found it but to actually take it there s a cost as rumplestiltskin so repeatedly says in once upon a time magic always comes at a price here again is a link across to need the opposite number again if the need doesn t balance the cost then why would you pay it too high a cost with too little benefit and the audience feels like the hero is crazy or just doing it because the script says to too small a price and the audience feels cheated it s too easy so again making links between the two helps strengthen the story note often the find and take are very close together the 8 points on the circle don t need to each have equal screen time having paid the price and taken it now we need to return home this is where we can start to bring home the conscious message of what we ve taken it s the balance point going back into the safe lands again and can be quite emotional again there s nothing really left to do so it s beginning to relax time which means all the stress of the journey can begin to surface and be dealt with as the hero returns home presumably hopefully they re somewhat changed if the hero hasn t actually changed then really what was the point of the whole thing this is where sit coms and soap operas cheat like mad since they don t actually want to seriously change the situation but leave it ready for next week they have to paint lots of obvious messages about what the characters have learned even to the point of having characters sitting around saying trite crap about i guess now we know that so next time i won t do that again so that the audience feels like they ve seen a change although actually next week they ll all act exactly the same as before sad isn t it the link with changed is search it s usually through the questing searching learning part of the story that the hero has changed this is done extremely obviously in lord of the rings the books of course when the 4 hobbits return to the shire and kick out saruman and wormtongue the lotr movies don t have that section so they try to show that they re changed through a soppy emotional oh gosh how deep we all are now load of rubbish with the 4 hobbits making calves eyes at each other they do show samwise actually going to ask his sweetheart to marry him finally which is good but still there is actually a reason for the section they cut out and the movies suffer for lack of it let s look at our example little bear again and so that s the basic overview version of the hero s journey pretty cool innit and that concludes my mini series from the workshop in some ways i wish i could have just told the events team go read dan harmon s blog posts and watch glove and boots but the ship s firewall blocks half of it for profanity and it would shock the heck out of the team for actually containing said profanity and doing a workshop is actually a lot more meaningful to many people than simply reading it on a blog but since you dear reader have read my blog here s a link to the stuff dan harmon wrote about it it s also in several parts and probably quite a lot clearer than what i wrote my audience was a bit different and i was simplifying in different ways because of the direction i m trying to influence them read what he wrote there s good stuff there glove and boots also did a video about the hero s journey which covers the more character centred side of the theory anyway i should stop waffling now i m writing a lot of this while sitting on a cold floor in changi airport in singapore with my wife and 1 year old son sleeping next to me at 5 30am i think i ll wait until i get home to proof read it once more before publishing tags community drama story telling teaching theatre writing categories logoshope story telling part 2 of aristotle and acts post author by mp daniel post date 31 may 2015 this is the second part of a 3 part series transcribing article ifying a training seminar i ran with the on board events team on the logos hope here s a link to the first part aristotle and a suuuper simple model waaay back in 350 or so bc a clever greek dude aristotle said that he reckoned a good story or theatrical performance had 3 parts to it beginning middle end yep it s what you re taught in primary school creative writing expanding those a bit beginning introduction to the main characters and the problem middle the struggle or conflict where the main characters confront the problem end where either the main characters or the problem win and everything resolves in some ways the most important thing from this is that without a problem there is no story there has to be something rotten in the state of denmark or else what keeps your audience more interested in the programme than in what s on their phones 3 act plays taking this concept a bit further is the traditional 3 act play often our events aren t done in acts but the concepts are useful for thinking where should i put the refreshment breaks and thinking how the story energy levels should map out best whether or not you actually use this model it s still an interesting one to look at and see if it helps you the 3 acts are pretty close to the beginning middle end concepts from before but expanded confusingly sometime the 3 act play can be broken down in to 4 parts which progresses through the main character and audiences perception of the problem there s potential for an interesting story you set up the main character s and the problem but they re not actually in conflict yet at least as far as this specific narrative goes there s resistance to the conflict things get in the way the problem isn t fully understood yet etc finally the conflict itself actually doing something rather than just trying to understand the problem and finally the outcome and cleaning up i mentioned that the main character and the problem may not be in actual conflict yet just to note here this is for the purposes of this narrative for instance in david and goliath israel and phillistia are at war at the beginning of the story however the main character david isn t actually in personal conflict with goliath until much later so how do these 4 parts map onto a 3 act play act 1 starting off the play you need some kind of event which introduces the reason for the story the children of israel are at war with the philistines jeff winger starts at his new community college darth vader boards princess leia s diplomatic space ship and takes her prisoner the orb of aldur is stolen little bear is playing and it s getting late sometimes this is called the inciting incident one thing to note is that this might not involve the main character it s setting the scene for the whole rest of the story and may in fact be the cause for many different stories to happen a murder has happened but at least so far the main character may not yet have been put on the case as the problem now develops at some point it s going to bump into the main character and eventually somehow they re going to have to do something about it they may not be keen on the idea they may need to be persuaded or dragged kicking and screaming into it and often it s more fun if that s the case this point which causes the main character s to actively attack the problem is sometimes called the first act turn david visits his brothers on the battlefield and sees goliath challenging them all and no one having the guts to do anything about it luke skywalker s uncle and aunt are killed and he decides to go with obi wan mr wolf and aunt pol tell garion that they re going to leave faldor s farm little bear decides to ignore mama bear and play instead now you ve actually got the audience hooked to the story they re interested in the character and now the character is about to go do something interesting this is a good ending point for the first act so you might as well try and sell some refreshments as you know the audience will come back to find out what will happen act 2 curtain up again time for act 2 it s been joked about that you should just skip acts i and iii and just go with ii as that s where all the interesting stuff happens in the four stages listed above you can see act 2 divided in half the first half is typically about understanding the problem the second half about actually going to do it so first we learn more about the problem often there s a lot of discovery trying to understand the problem first and then later transition into actually doing something about it david starts asking his brothers about goliath and they despise him the prodigal son is burning his inheritance not realising the consequences sometimes around about the mid point there s a good point to stop pause and say right now we know what we need to do lets do it the mid point can be the major turning point in the story david s questioning about goliath finally reaches the ears of king saul and he calls david before him the prodigal son s money finally starts to run out now we ve finally got to a place where the main character will come into actual conflict with the problem david tells the king that he ll go fight goliath however often the doing is more complex than originally thought and it can all go terribly wrong the king tries to give david his armour but it s far to big and david falls on his face the prodigal son thinks he can still be self sufficient but his friends reject him and goes on the hunt for jobs eventually he finds he has no skills at all and ends up feedi...