Lost the Plot

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Giving top-tier notes will make you a SENSATION at the function. You will have other writers clamoring for your attention. But when the script is actually in front of you, it's easy to overthink everything. Just remember, it is not as hard as it seems. You got this. 🌐Request notes on your story: https://www.jgscammell.com/ ✍️Check out my writing: https://yeshua.substack.com/ 📹Bonus videos on Pat...

Consider buying me a coffee on my patreon, or dropping a like and a comment to support me! Love ya. Some ideas for upcoming videos: - Comparing First Acts of Gladiator 1 and 2 - How Romance Works in Star Wars - The Art of Giving Notes- Actually Joseph Campbell Was Right. - Is it true that there NO RULES to writing? - No Seriously. Storytelling is Magic. - The One Thing All Artists Must Master - Th...

I barely scratched the surface on the "gender" aspect ("the active" as masculine, etc) and could easily do an entire video on that subject and the "Heroine's Journey." As always, THERE IS SO MUCH THAT CAN BE SAID... Please note: Marie-Louise von Franz in her book "The Feminine in Fairy Tales" complicates and questions the Freudian idea that "the ego is the hero of every story." It's obviously not...

What do Carmella from Sopranos and Padmé have in common? They are both married to evil men. But are they victims of that evil? Or are they enablers of it? Big think. ▶️⁠Find me on youtube⁠ 🌐⁠Request story notes⁠  ✍️Check out my writing 📹⁠Bonus videos here⁠  🎙️⁠My podcast⁠  ᯤ ⁠Spotify feed for my videos ⁠  📸 ⁠My Instagram⁠  🟠🟢🔵 ⁠My Letterboxd⁠ #starwars #writing #villain Learn more about your...

Writers! What is your relationship to music? Do you listen to music while writing? While daydreaming for new stories? Do you have a type of music you listen to while writing? Any particular playlists or artists? How do you view the relationship of storytelling to music? This video was absolutely MAULED by the copyright police. It is blocked in some countries and (like many of my videos) is not mon...

This comes from a place of love. The trend I name "insecure horror" is not something I despise, just something I've noticed. Many filmmakers working in this style are immensely talented. The truth is, we live in insecure times, and hey, I’m insecure too, and that's why it would mean a lot to me if you gave me a 5 star review! In return I will do nothing. I realize this is not a fair exchange, but...

Are you in a creative rut? Struggling with writer's block? Feeling hopeless, aimless, and out of sorts? This video essay about the history of human creativity might be just the thing to inspire you. Whenever I feel stuck, these are the ideas I play around with to get back in the fight. I am many things, but I am not a historian, an anthropologist, or an academic of any stripe. I do not recommend q...

Youtube is flooded with videos about Rings of Power and the Acolyte, but I think what we're seeing right now in Fantasy is part of a bigger trend. This video charts the history and ideology of "Elevated Fantasy" and how we can course-correct with "Enlightened Fantasy." As a writer of fantasy, this video is close to my heart. I didn't make this explicit in the video, but I consider this a kind of m...

This is a departure from the normal content on this channel. This is a highly personal video--a video 7 years in the making. Please keep an open mind. Iasos was the herald of the rising sun. His logo (a silhouette of himself holding up his flute) resembles the Page of Swords. He was the forerunner of the Age of Aquarius. He came to tell us that a new day was dawning. Listen to his music to get a g...

Breaking the 180-degree rule doesn't simply create an interesting cinematic affect, it also permits the filmmakers to express theme sublingually, using cinematic form itself. We need to learn rules--not to follow them blindly, nor to break them willy-nilly--but to understand exactly what these rules express. #filmmaking #filmstudies #cinematography #directing #editing Learn more about your ad choi...

Writing a logline is not just something to do moments before submitting to a writing contest. Writing a logline is actually an amazing exercise that will improve your script immeasurably. So many writers start with a first draft, and THEN write a logline, only to THEN realize the focus of their script... Save yourself the trouble and start with a solid logline. 🌐Request story notes: https://www.j...

There are so many people on the internet giving excellent writing advice, so I thought I'd help bring balance to the Force by giving some bad writing advice. You can thank me later. Or don't. That's fine too. You can leave a hateful comment, if you want. That's cool. It doesn't hurt my feelings at all when you do that. In fact, it fills me with a burning desire to make more videos when you say "St...

This was my very first video---and it shows! Please excuse the quality. Adventure Time is deeper than it seems. In this essay, we'll see how the show matures over 10 seasons, how its serialized elements come to dominate its procedural ones, how it tells a symbolically-rich story with emotional gravity, and how its whimsy outlasts death. CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 0:45 Cosmogony 1:21 Timelessness 2...

Some of what I'm saying only applies to screenwriting, but most of it applies to all forms of writing. None of this is up for debate. Absolutely everything I say here is the gospel truth and if your own intuition tells you otherwise, then you should believe me without question and tell your intuition to shut the flip up..,.... On OPPOSITE DAY! 🌐Request story notes: https://www.jgscammell.com/ ✍️C...

What are you? Jedi or Sith? Do you choose the right-hand path or the left-hand path? Do you serve the world within or the world within-and-without? Life is an MMORPG. Choose your faction. I have seen the argument that “balance” is a *temporary* thing, that it's "balance not Balance," etc, but that's unsatisfying storytelling. Why would you want there to be six films revolving around an ancient pro...

Does Dr Alan Grant have an arc? Yes. He Does. An exceptionally moving and layered one that's easy to miss amid all the prehistoric violence. Let's take a closer look at the original Jurassic Park (1993) and see what's really going on here on the surface, below the surface, and way below the surface... NOTE: I re-edited and re-uploaded this video something like 60 times to appease the youtube censo...

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Storytellers are shamans--at least they should be. The mythic role of the writer is all but forgotten in our world of ready-made "content," and it's time we remember the importance of this vocation. This video essay argues that the Hero's Journey as developed by Joseph Campbell via Carl Jung is the same thing as the Tarot. By reference to the Ra Material, aka the Law of One, I develop a modular wr...

Getting notes on your writing can be very emotional. Just remember: it's easier to critique something than to write something good! You can trust me on that: I'm a professional critiquer. Congratulate yourself on getting this far, and celebrate the milestones. And no matter how harsh the notes are, GET BACK IN THE SADLE AND KEEP WRITING! And please check out my website below and request notes from...

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What do vampires represent for you? Lemme know. I tried to get metaphysical and ended up getting political, but hey, maybe that's something to think about. Is there a politics without metaphysics? And is there a metaphysics without a theology? Are we doomed to re-invent religion over and over? Is the human being an innately religious animal? Maybe think about considering to check out my patreon ht...

We don't often think of pop cinema having themes. But, until very recently, the people who make pop cinema think very hard about their themes. In this second episode of WHAT IS STAR WARS? we'll talk about how the themes of Star Wars relate to character, worldbuilding, and the spectrum from mythological to the sociological. P.s. I will never get over the opening shot of A New Hope. 🌐Request story...

🌐Request story notes: https://www.jgscammell.com/ ✍️Check out my writing: https://yeshua.substack.com/ 📹 Bonus videos here: https://www.patreon.com/Josh_from_xbolive 🎙️Here's my podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0p75BgKI0GhuCQVOJl8e8d CHAPTERS: 0:00 Seven Critiques. 0:46 1. He Produces Generic Writing. 1:26 2. He Imposes His Theory. 3:00 3. He Picks Cherries. 3:55 4. He Promotes Individuali...

Looking for quality, challenging, and fun content about the hidden layers of film, tv, and novels? Look no further. ▶️Find me on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@josh_from_xboxlive 🌐Request story notes: https://www.jgscammell.com/ ✍️Check out my writing: https://yeshua.substack.com/ 📹 Bonus videos here: https://www.patreon.com/Josh_from_xbolive 🎙️Here's my podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show...