Such a moment shifts everything from the first act to the second, allowing the reader and audience to feel that shift so they can prepare for the journey to come. Beyond that, they help you to offer empathetic relationships within your story, as well as ways to introduce themes, story elements, and exposition to the reader and audience.Īt some point at the end of the first act, your story may showcase a moment where your protagonist needs to cross the threshold between their Ordinary World and the Special World they will be experiencing as their inner or outer journey begins. Meeting the Mentor offers the protagonist someone that can guide them through their journey with wisdom, support, and even physical items. And it also manages to help you develop a protagonist with more depth that can help to create empathy for them.Īlong the way, your protagonist - and screenplay - may need a mentor. It also gives you the chance to amp-up the risks and stakes involved, which, in turn, engages the reader or audience even more. When your character refuses the Call to Adventure, it allows you to create instant tension and conflict within the opening pages and first act of your story. Giving your story's protagonist a Call to Adventure introduces the core concept of your story, dictates the genre your story is being told in and helps to begin the process of character development that every great story needs. And it allows you to foreshadow and create the necessary elements of empathy and catharsis that your story needs. Showing your protagonist within their Ordinary World at the beginning of your story offers you the ability to showcase how much the core conflict they face rocks their world. The first stage - The Ordinary World - happens to be one of the most essential elements of any story, even ones that don't follow the twelve-stage structure to a tee. Before we dive in, be sure to get our free e-book download while it's still available:
Welcome to Part 7 of our 12-part series ScreenCraft’s Exploring the 12 Stages of the Hero’s Journey, where we go into depth about each of the twelve stages and how your screenplays could benefit from them. We dive into this archetypal story structure according to Joseph Campbell's The Hero's Journey and Christopher Vogler's interpreted twelve stages of that journey within his book, The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers.
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