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Ken
5.0 out of 5 stars Practical application of Joseph Campbell's ideas for screenwriters
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2015
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The seminar is not "Joseph Campbell 101." It's a practical treatment on how a writer can apply Campbell's insights to their own work.

Michael Hauge and Chris Vogler are very successful Hollywood script consultants who have amplified their careers by incorporating the ideas Joseph Campbell into their work. In these recordings, they plug Campbell's monomyth structure into screenwriting story structure. Having read their books, (The Writer's Journey and Writing Screenplays That Sell), I can tell you that they do not stray far from their written material.

What is nice about this recording, is that they overlay 2 journeys, the Inner and Outer journey, into screenwriting parlance. The Outer Journey is represented by a hero's visible, outward goals. And the Inner Journey signifies the hero's personal transformation. It's a powerful combination, and worth investigating if you are studying story structure, novel structure, or screenwriting. As they walk through this material, they associate stages of the Hero's Journey with the act structure of a film, and suggest target points in the film (sometimes minutes) where the writer should introduce various events from the monomyth cycle.

If you plan to purchase this, I recommend also reading their books and Campbell's "The Hero With A Thousand Faces". If your budget is limited, start with Vogler's "The Writer's Journey." It primarily targets screenplay structure, and is easier to read than Campbell.

These recordings go into detail about the various myth stages and archetypes, but cannot cover those topics at the depth in which they are treated in their written works. The recordings offer more of a high to medium-level treatment of topics presented more in-depth in the books. This recording offers supplemental insights and the "2 Journeys" overlay that the separate books lack.

If you are unfamiliar with the monomyth cycle (also known as The Hero's Journey), or are unfamiliar with Joseph Campbell, you may find the recordings confusing because Hauge and Vogler don't spend a lot of time introducing listeners to Campbell's theories. They offer a high level overview of the stages, and then dive into how a writer can apply The Hero's Journey to a screenplay or novel. If you're in the camp of the unfamiliar, Wikipedia has a good article on "monomyth", and a web search for Joseph Campbell or "The Hero's Journey" will give you plenty of videos, articles, and diagrams to ramp you up on this subject.

If you have not seen it, I also highly recommend watching The Power Of Myth, where Bill Moyers interviews Joseph Campbell at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch. There are YouTube clips of these interviews, and Amazon sells the DVD set for a reasonable price.
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SJ
5.0 out of 5 stars I really enjoyed these CD's and have listened to them many
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2015
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I really enjoyed these CD's and have listened to them many, many times. The only thing I would wish is that both Mr. Vogler and Mr. Hauge when they give movie examples they use the same movies. I say that because they both have different perspectives and it would be interesting and more beneficial (I think) to be comparing apples to apples. Just saying.
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Ellen J. Grogan
5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond excellent writing tool.
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2017
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Beyond excellent learning tool for all writers at any stage.
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hut10
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2015
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Another great writer's tool.
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Herbert S. Watson
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Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2015
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Bookworm
5.0 out of 5 stars Not just about how great novels and films work internally
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2015
As a writer who writes everyday, I never let 24 hours pass without learning something. Regardless of who did it first (Lucas or Vogler) they both pay homage to the genius that is Joseph Campbell. And nowhere yet, after 40 years of writing books, writing for film, stage and TV, have I found a more consolidated, concentrated, succinct recounting of exactly how Campbell's discovery of The Power of Myth, is embedded in the DNA of every human being. Campbell's truth is as real as the fossil record and Hauge and Vogler have spent much of their career time making this truth available to anyone with an interest in transferring the human experience into books, and films. Story, in essence, is the delivery system which defines how every single one of us makes sense of the world in general and our world in particular. Michael Hauge and Christopher Vogler literally give the listener the keys to the kingdom in this seminar. I not only listened to it five times, I plugged in my ear buds, put on my Dragon Naturally Speaking microphone, and repeated every word so I could transcribe it word for word, into a WORD document I could then use to make my own notes for use in my own work. I've read hundreds of books on craft. Been to scores of conferences, I have a degree in English lit. My writing group has four retired college English Professors with over 130 years of collective teaching experience, and there are truths in this audio even they didn't know. There's a line where one of them says, "When the student is ready, the teacher disappears." Well, as a student of life, literature and film, I know I'll never know it all, but thanks to this audio, and my due diligence with regards to internalizing everything in it, I now feel confident that I know at least 95%. Not just about how great novels and films work internally, under the surface, but also how real life works. This audio changed my perception of people. I no longer question "what" people say, I question "why" they said it. I now longer care "what people believe" I wonder "why they believe it?" This seminar will open your eyes in ways you didn't know existed. The downside is, you will also know exactly why your in-laws and others, who think they know everything, make you roll your eyes or bore the hell out of you: They don't have a clue. And sadly, depending on how you look at it, you will have to remain silent, because you will understand, perhaps for the first time, why nothing you have to add to the conversation will make sense to these people. And the upside to that is this: You will have no choice but go someplace quiet and write it all down, in some Story form, knowing in your heart, that you no longer have to wonder if it will make sense to anyone other than you. This seminar is not just another layer of the onion, this is the onion completely peeled.
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