20/03/2016

Exercise 1 - use The Hero's Journey

At the beginning of that story I had only the two parts of the Act I and they were used as a short clip in the film course (http://kafkasfilm.blogspot.cz/2013/01/assignment-2-creating-atmosphere.html).

The Stages of The Hero's Journey helped me to continue the story from beginning to the end. Even this is rough version and needs some adjustments I am somehow satisfied that I finished it. I had great problems with it when I was doing the film course - the structure of story and my plan was to study a screen writing. This stages are very helpful.

Act I

Ordinary world: Josef is an ordinary man without children and interested in detective novels. His father recently died and left him only an old radio which he listened to every day last days in asylum.
Call to Adventure: As he examines the radio he finds a message on a small paper. It is a frequency. He finds the frequency and there is only a noise but as long as he listen to it he can hear his father voice. He is scared. The voice tells him that Josef's wife is responsible that he was jailed into asylum. The voice encourages him to ask his wife for details.
Refusal of the Call: He can not believe the voice was real and there is something wrong with his mind. He turn off the radio
Meeting with mentor: When he listen to the radio again he can not hear voice but his father is in his home. Talking to him. They argue and his father tell him that his wife is responsible for father's death just because father's legacy.
Crossing the First Threshold: They fight and Josef choked his father to death.

Act II

Tests: On the next morning he finds his wife on the floor instead his father. He is scared and run out.
Approached to the Inmost Cave: He is decided to commit a suicide. He stands on rock and is a small step to fall down. He is not able to kill himself and when he makes step back he slipped off and get hit his head. As he is getting to life he realizes that the lying women was not his wife.
Ordeal: He tries to call his wife by mobil. She picks up the phone and ask him where he is. He can not believe that she is alive. He can not explain himself what is going on.
Reward: She helps him to get to hospital and they find that he has heavy concussion of brain and broken leg. She also tells him that they received father's legacy.

Act III

The road back: His wife picks up him at hospital and they drive back to home. Everything is in order and they have happy life.
Ressurrection: in the middle of night Josef hears the noise of radio. He finds it and he can hear father voice.
Return with elixir: He broke the radio, the voice disappeared.




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