So what we have to do is make a trailer individually (although you have a group that you share story with) about a character and their hero’s journey.
My group consists of Minnie and Michelle (who I did the last film with) Its great to work with them because I know they will both pull their weight and they both live really close to me so, it will be easy to film outside of school.
We have started to come up with a good storyline last week.
On our first lesson we had no idea really where to start. We went onto a sight called hero’s journey generator and had a play around but it wasn’t much help. It basically just outlined the stages of the hero’s journey which we already knew. Our group concluded that we needed an actual story to go off and then we could generate the sections of our hero’s journey.
We began throwing out ideas and names without any real cohesion. I looked up ‘epic baby names’ then ‘country baby names’ I wanted to call the character florence, like Florence and the Machine, but that was shut down.
We decided later after looking at more names that her name should be Jinx
We decided that our story should be about a young girl called Jinx who is in a car accident with her best friend. When she awakes after the accent she realises she has been taken to hospital and her best friend, lies next to her having died minutes before she woke up. She still feels lots of adrenaline after the car crash and so much energy is rushing through her. She places her hand on her friends body and unknowingly resurrects her friend much to the confusion of everyone else including Jinx.
After this incident Jinx starts to be pursued by ‘Death’ in human form, although she doesn’t know it. She often sees a Dark shadow following her and notices that many of her family and friends start to die one by one.
Jinx is horrified and doesn’t understand what is happening or why. Death then begins to send Jinx notes and follows her even more telling her that no mortal should have the power to resurrect the dead. What death doesn’t understand is Jinx only had the power to resurrect her friend, no one else.
Death starts coming to Jinx in her dreams telling her to fight him, telling her he will kill her as nothing can kill death.
Jinx tries to avoid sleep so as not to face death again but soon collapses with exhaustion asking her friend, who she resurrected, to watch over her while she sleeps.
In the dream Jinx faces death and is killed by him, while this is happening her friend is experiencing extremem adrenaline watching Jinx writhe around in pain, once Jinx is dead her friend is able to resurrect her, after this Death tries to seize the best friend but cannot drag her away with him as she has already been seized by death once and brought back, she can only go with him if she dies naturally. The two are relieved that they have ridded themselves of death.
We then put this story into the steps of the heroes journey
Ordinary world
- Jinx world before the car crash
Call to adventure
- When she gets in the car crash
Refusal of the call
- The fact she doesn’t realise she has the power
Meeting the mentor
- When the friend comes back to life
Crossing the threshold
- Getting the notes from death and her family and friends death
Tests allies and enemies
- Tests are the notes and encounters with death and the death of her f and f
- allies is the friends he resurrected
- Enemies is death
approach to the inner most cave
- the first dream
Ordeal
- The dream that is final battle when Jinx dies
Reward
- Jinx is bought back to life by her best friend
The road back
- Death realises he cannot take either girl
Return with the elixir
- The two girls are relieved to have ridden themselves of death
No comments:
Post a Comment