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The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit… archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character.
Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth…. A mother’s love isn’t cliché, it’s universal. These things are archetypes. They’re the building blocks of myth and legend. They are a big part about what it means to be human.
As a screenwriter you are tasked with the purpose of emotionally impacting your reader. Everything you write should be oriented around doing exactly that.
One of the most important ways you can get access to that is understanding what an archetype is and how to incorporate them into your screenwriting.
Here’s my first video on that, which will be the first in a series of videos and articles over the coming weeks.
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Melody Jackson was named one of the Top Script Analysts Three Times out of three in different blind surveys conducted by Creative Screenwriting over an 11-year period, receiving especially high marks on on value for the price and depth of analysis. Melody has a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies and has critiqued thousands of screenplays in depth, working with all levels of screenwriters from new to produced established writers. Click to learn more about Script Analysis by Melody.