Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey
audience a frame o f reference to better experience your work. The mythological
approach to story boils down to using metaphors or comparisons to get across
your feelings about life.
T h e great German stage and film director M a x Reinhardt believed that you
can create an atmosphere in a theatre well before an audience sits down or the curtain
goes up. A carefully selected title can strike a metaphor that intrigues the audience
and attunes them to the coming experience. Good promotion can engage them with
images and slogans that are metaphors for the world of your story. By controlling
music and lighting as the audience enters the space, and consciously directing such
details as the attitudes and costumes of the ushers, a specific mood can be created.
T h e audience can be put in the ideal frame of mind for the experience they will share,
prepared for comedy, romance, horror, drama, or whatever effect you wish to create.
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