Joseph Campbell

“A one sentence definition of mythology? "Mythology" is what we call someone else's religion”


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Monomyth: The Heroes Journey

Here are links for the monomyth:


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Three Act Story Structure

Here are some links that outline the traditional three act story structure:

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Inappropriately Funny Star Wars:The Phantom Menace Review

I am posting this link so the class can have an entertaining yet educational analysis of how a film can fail. This is a review in seven parts of the first of the Star Wars prequels, "The Phantom Menace". Despite its insanity and its adult humor the reviewer describes quite accurately where the film went wrong on a filmmaking 101 level.

Remember the humor in the review is adult and designed to shock. So if that's not your thing, don't watch it.

Watch it here.

Bottle Show Idea

Our second assignment is to come up with a few ideas for a "Bottle Show." The term bottle show comes from episodic television where certain episodes were not given a large budget. So, to save money on sets and location shooting the entire action of the episode would take place on only the sets that have already been built.

I would like you to come up with a short idea of a complete story that would only take place in our classroom.

Oath of the Horatii - David Jacques Louis

This is our first writing assignment. Im assigning this primarily to get a writing sample from you, to see where you are in terms of your level in writing. I would like for you, similar to a picture prompt, is to take this very cinematic painting and imagine a narrative that surrounds it. Try to make it around a page long.

The Lumière Brothers

Here is a link to a PDF about the Lumière Brothers, two of filmmaking's earliest pioneers.

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