The Hero/Heroine’s Journey
Reading a play or a screenplay versus seeing the final production can be a very different experience. You can easily find articles comparing and contrasting the two, but I will share one link to get you started if you really want to think and create within one of those formats. I like how this particular article speaks to plays being a bit more about what you hear versus a movie perhaps being more about what you see.
This comparison makes me think about the argument for different learning styles (auditory, visual, reading, and kinesthetic) although I believe I’ve poked a bit of fun at how much stock to put in learning styles on other pages (but you may not have seen those yet). Since I already mentioned that reading a play or a script is its own unique experience, how about that last potential learning “style”, kinesthetic? How does it feel to watch a play versus a movie? How does it actually feel to participate in one or the other genre or to start creating one or the other? These could be excellent journaling questions if you are considering whether you have material that might lend itself to one genre or the other.
Here are a few other questions to consider about “staged” content:
What would it look like to recreate a conversation you had with your manager for a TikTok versus a YouTube video?
In what kinds of video formats are you more likely to script versus relying on improv or stream of consciousness production?
Does what you are working on have more a Western or Eastern style closure (I wrote about the idea of poetic closure and brought in the discussion of film closure within that article if you want to reflect on this idea more)
Speaking of West versus East motifs, one of the books I mention in my poetic closure essay deals with the idea of the Hero/Heroine’s Journey; does your current dialogue fit in with a particular place on the journey?
Where will your journey take you next?
2 - Do you want to take a step back with the material you have and look for connections? What is your theme?
16 - You might have gotten here from the idea of improv but if not, you might want to circle back.
22 - Have you picked your genre now but not sure how to plot things out?