Dan Harmon Story Circle: 8 Proven Steps to Better Stories

thank you for making this wonderful video!

Was really enjoying this, when I realised I haven't seen this film yet! Coming back soon!

When talking about the need being further away by the road of trials I actually disagree. It is the want of the character that is being separated by the trials not the need, the need is actually the solution that makes the protagonist resolve the tensions of the story otherwise the need as no impact at the moment of the revelation.

Bro music is louder than your voice

great production! is the 8 point story arc by Dan Harmon or is this a derivative of an earlier published work by Nigel Watts?

I appreciate it but it also seems like a recipe for typical story arcs. I’d love to see the form grow. Also, the Dark Knight is overrated.

Margites, you did it again.

Hmm that didnt help me at all🤔 but Batman is still a great Movie😅

Thanks Bro x

Not needed at all — just some arbitrary steps that the majority of successful screenwriters don’t take into consideration.

batman didnt purposely kill harvey. the writers understanding writing but dont understand Batman, love SB though

How to make a boring predictable story: teach everyone to tell a story the same way following an 8 step process.

I have an ending. I do not have a beginning. How do I fix that?

Sorry, what does "meeting the Goddess"? mean again?

1. you (establish the protagonist)
2. you need (protagonist needs externally / wants something internally)
3. you go! (protagonist acts / entering the chaos circle)
4. you search (protagonist faces obstacles)
5. you find (but its not as the protagonist expected)
6. you take (but not without paying a price)
7. you return (bringing home what you took)
8. you change (protagonist has developed)

Amazing story even more amazing as the lie doesn’t work

Wtf if the problem w Bruce is Batman
Why is Harvey dent becoming the white knight ok w her
Trading the same problem
Why does she discourage Bruce but push Harvey to be a hero

Does this mean killing my main character after step 6 is lazy writing? Or am I okay with not "closing the loop"?

Idk how many times I watched the Dark Knight with the best joker ever

Thank you so much. This helped a lot.

Just the hero's journey with different labels. I guess the answer is write a character arc, and keep adding conflict.

Can you do this for super man Spider-Man etc

Dan Harmon is an amazing writer, but I don't know how this works for him. These points can't be equal parts of the story; you don't spend the last 15 minutes of a 2-hr movie on how the hero has changed.

Again: this is stolen from the works of Joseph Campbell. If Dan Harmon was capable of humility he'd stop peddling these ideas as his own. They just aren't. He's admitted it, but is still stealing it.

Nice!

The most complex way to explain that the dark knight is bad

How can use this information when I hate that movie?

Great summary

It looks as a slightly simplified adaptation of Joseph Cambell's "Hero's Journey". Nothing new. It doesn't take time to create this, just read 1 or 2 narratology book or maybe only wikipedia. It's so sad.

Lemme just say that it doesn't exactly work in this example. Nolan's Batman is a three part story and ALL of part 2: the Dark Knight, is CHAOS, with moments of humanity spread within.

It'd be better to say that each of these things has to happen, if not in the same order.

Dan Harmon…….?

"Dan harmon distilled centuries of story telling..."
Joseph Campbell: 😮

This story plan sucks. The whole video sucks. This is bad advice

Like I said yesterday in the video about foil characters, subtitles are essential not only to understand whatever narrator, but the examples themselves. It's a feature that international audience appreciate a lot (like me, from Italy)

Does it always take 3 hours to explain this story circle ?

Why would you put a host of roblox between your protagonist and their need right when the things get complicated? It's no time to play around and have fun, I'd say.

This was fairly nebulous and clear as mud.

Bruce Wayne is literally me

dan didn't make this. he just simplified joseph campbells "the hero with a thousand faces". it was never 'his' to begin with. probably why this video even exists, to make sure no one sues them.

Maybe instead of praising a fat disgusting perverted pothead you could give credit where it’s actually due. Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey. Dear Lord.

I needed help with my screenplay, so I went to Google and searched. I found this video, which I completely took in. Then I returned to my screenplay and made several changes, and now... I still need help with my screenplay. The End.

now we have AI

The captions say roblox for roadblocks 😂

Roblox

Don't love your characters too much, because they have to walk through fire eventually. Batman exploring a field of flowers for 2 hours would make for a terrible movie.