The Journey Begins
Your Character Takes Their First Steps
Objective:
- Begin to construct an original character & develop a storyline that follows the steps of The Hero's Journey.
- Answer Questions that help plan the next steps of my character's adventure
- Develop a simple 3 panel sequential art that gives me some information about the character's world - Think Comics
Taking Steps
In this part of a storyline you are giving the reader/viewer a backstory or just some information about the day to day life of the character you have created....knowing that this day to day life is about to get a lot more exciting.
Sequential Artists (aka comic book artist, illustrators, story boarders) create images that go with the outline of a story. They give images to ideas in the order they happen.
Ordinary World - The First Part of The Hero's Journey
Rango is a great example of The Hero's Journey.
Some Ideas
Questions to Answer
Questions to answer as we prepare our character for the journey:
1. How does the character receive “the call to adventure”?
2. Does the character accept the adventure right away or do they refuse the call? How would they refuse it?
3. What motivates the character to accept “the call”?
4. Is there a character that helps yours? Like a sidekick? Think about how Donkey helps Shrek or Han Solo helps Luke. This is like the friend that is along for the ride. It could be an object not a person too…like a magic charm. It could be an animal friend.
5. Who helps mentor or train the character? Why? (Think about how Alfred helps Batman or how Haymitch helps Katness, or Yoda helps Luke).
6. At what point does the character leave the ordinary world for the unfamiliar world the journey happens in? How does this take place? (Think Katniss on the train to the Capital, Harry on the train to Hogwarts, Luke on the Millennium Falcon)