Monomyth

Ok so we have been atalking alot about something known as the Monomyth or Hero's Journey. The basic idea is that most stories follow a certain pattern of events.
Demonstrated quite well by this:

A monomyth is made up of multiple stages, that document the main character's journey, development and plot points. We have been asked to write a story that follows the concept of the Monomyth using 8 of the stages or more. In 1200-1300 words. As well as relating it to Monomyth stages and talking about how we can break it up into chapters and levels to be used in a video game.


Update: The entire write up was supposed to be that long, include all the rest of the things.....sigh. Time to delete about 3000 words of work. I got it down to 1500 but lost all detail and reflection in the work. Probably cost me alot of marks but there was no way that I could have gotten that much work into so few words without doing so.


Update 2: Submitted 2 days ahead of deadline!! Woop!!

Update 3: There has been a weeks extension put on the piece.....if a dyslexic person can find the time to get it right then so can everyone else. I hate to admit I am a little disapointed after rushing to get it finished in time.

Ok so, story is all in now. And we have to make a stop frame animation, using our story, of maximum 3 mins using 24fps (frames per second).......thats an insane amount of work for a single person. 1 minute would take 1440 individual frames of work..... Worried face.....

Update: Laura (may the gods bless her!) has expressed our concern over the work load and time frame for it's achievement. It has been brought down to 10fps, on the down side there is now a 3 minute minimum.....1800 frames. If you give 20 seconds to set up each frame (thats faster than an unexperienced student could ever be expected to achieve) then it will take 10 hours of work. May not seem that bad.... but it has to be submitted in a month and we won't have the matierals for another week. Along side all the other work we have. I don't see how this can be achieved.....watch this space.


And now some video examples for your occular enjoyment!