Hello Folks. I introduce Mr Kal Bashir, a notable contributor to indieactivity. He exposes the concept of Mythology in a screenplay. The term “mythology” can refer either to the study of myths or to a body or collection of myths. A myth is a sacred narrative usually explaining how the world or humankind came to be in its present form, although, in a very broad sense, the word can refer to any traditional story. Kal Bashir explains the mythology behind ‘The Last King of Scotland.’
The framework is based on core, indisputable fundamentals, including:
Without exception, every successful story involves physical journey. Visual stories (Mythology), especially Hollywood and novels targeting that market, accentuate the journey element. There is distinct physical movement between locations/situations with specific functions implemented at those locations/situations.
Without exception, every successful story involves transformation. There is always a start-state and an end-state and lots of in-between change-states which incrementally lead to the target. We can call this psychological journey.
Without exception, every successful story takes (Mythology) characters through a New World or New State, which involves particular process and has certain functions. New Worlds are physical manifestations of emerging or established new psychological states. Sometimes a New World is literal (a new planet or a new city), but most commonly it is a change of situation, location (or a change of location within a location) with specific functional purpose. Commonly, New Worlds and States are cloaked / disguised to be seamless.
I am a screenwriter and filmmaker. I am pre-production for my first feature film, Maya. I made four short films, sometime ago: Muti (2013), A Terrible Mistake (2011), Passion (2007) and Stuff-It (2007) - http://bit.ly/2H9nP3G
