Plotting a story is hard. However, there are a number of storytelling principles and guidelines that attempt to tackle this problem. Dan Harmon took one of the most popular, Cambell’s Hero’s Journey, and simplified it into just eight steps. To learn more about how this works in practice, we broke down the film Shaun of the Dead to see how its script follows (or doesn’t follow) Harmon’s plotting format along the way.

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Check out Dan Harmon’s video on the story circle:    • Dan Harmon's Story Circle | Rick and ...  

Industrial Scripts’ interpretation of the story circle via films like Taken: https://industrialscripts.com/dan-har...

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