Final Project: Tale of Seven

WILLIAM ‘CHRIS’ RAY

How can we combine traditional Graphic Story Telling with Modern Digital Media?IS IT JUST CLASSICAL MEDIA WITH A MODERN TWIST?

Problem Statement:

New Media/Technology Story Telling: Using Vogler’s Archetypes in Modern Media

• Christopher Vogler, native to St Louis Missouri received his BA in Journalism at the University of Missouri in 1971.• After Serving in the U.S. Air force making documentaries for the Government, he eventually attended film school at the University of Southern California. • As a Film student, reading Joseph Campbell’s book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Vogler was inspired to form the theories we I am using today from his book, The Writers Journey.

Resource: http://www.thewritersjourney.com/

New Media/Technology Story Telling: Seven Archetypes for Seven in SevenThe Seven Archetypes:• The Hero• The Mentor• The Herald• The Threshold Guardian• The Shape Shifter• The Shadow• The Trickster

Resource: http://www.thewritersjourney.com/hero%27s_journey.htm#Practical

The 12 stages of the Hero’s Journey:• The Ordinary World• The Call to Adventure• Refusal of the Call• Meeting with the Mentor• Crossing the Threshold• Test, Allies, and enemies• Approach to the Inmost Cave• Ordeal• Seizing the Sword, Reward• The Road Back• Resurrection• Return with the Elixir

Original Concepts and Prototypes

RESEARCH AND CONCEPTUALIZING 7 ARCHETYPES

1. Origin2. :Weapon3. :Token:4. Clothes:5. Ethos:6. Personality:7. Gift/Talent:

Seven common themes

Luke Skywalker• Origin: Villager, Joined

soldier to prove self.• Weapon: Buster Sword

– Ultimate Sword• Token: White Materia

(after death of Aeris) and the Buster Sword as his deceased best friends weapon.

• Gift/Talent: SOLDIER training and genetic manipulation with radiation and alien Jenova cells.

Cloud Strife

Original Concepts and PrototypesResearch and Conceptualizing 7 archetypes

• Origin: Orphan with farmer relatives. Dreams of joining the to escape tedious life of farmer.

• Weapon: Blaster, Fathers Lightsaber, Self-Made Lightsaber

• Token: Fathers Lightsaber, Robotic hand like father. The light side of force as gift of Obi Wan

• Gift/Talent: Powerful us of the Force passed on by Father.

1.Origin: Often have Humble Beginnings (the orphan). Teaches early value of family and community. Looking outside to in creates empathy. Usually begin without access to any distinguishing abilities.

2.Weapon: The Sword, Pistol, Sword and Shield, The generic weapon of the world they live in.

3.Token: Often in the cases of Orphans, something that reminds them of the family they have lost.

4.Clothes: Humble in the beginning (relation to the reader - average person), Glorious in the end implying the readers potential as well.

5.Ethos: Stereotypically Lawful/Good but really any branch of the “Good” perspective.

6.Personality: Humility developed throughout the story to make him or her a better person morally.

7.Gift/Talent: Focusing on Fantasy, normally it is a magical command of the natural elements.

The Hero’s Seven Themes

Original Concepts and PrototypesResearch and Conceptualizing 7 archetypes

You have the What, now the How?PRECEDENT ONE: HOBO LOBO BY  STEVAN ŽIVADINOVIĆ 

•Original Parallax Scrolling source

PRECEDENT TWO: SEASONS BY VIVIAN LEE

•Demo of Fellow students work

SCRIPT: LETS LOOK UNDER THE HOOD.

•Html, CSS, Javascript, Jquery, …OH MY!•Follow along at hobolobo.net and http://a.parsons.edu/~rayw188/DemoCopy/Tale%20of%20Seven7.html

Questions? Comments?

Concerns?WILLIAM C RAY I RAYW188@NEWSCHOOL.EDU HTTP: / /A.PARSONS.EDU/~RAYW188/DEMOCOPY/TALE%20OF%20SEVEN7.HTMLSPECIAL THANKS TO MFADT STUDENTS: GABRIEL GIANORDOLI | V IV IAN LEE | BETTY QUINN

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You have the What, now the How?PROTOTYPE ONE: CONCEPT ART• Picture Goes here!

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