How does your project relate to real media texts ?

One of the key existing media conventions that my project relates to is the work of Joseph Campbell. One of the most useful of Campbell’s texts to relate to is the book: ‘Hero of a thousand faces’. It gives a postmodernist twist on the concept of a hero as he structured the journey of the hero around a concept called monomyth. It takes in the trials and tasks that a hero must face. The hero starts in an ordinary world and is called to a strange new world with strange powers and events and also links to the concept of ‘fight or flight’. This refers to whether a hero will step up to the plate and make the effort to reach his target or fail and be doomed to misery and failure. The structure of the narrative that Joseph Campbell uses is postmodern, because there is also a strong presence of mythology which comes with ‘the journey of a hero’. As some myths often differ in the approaches that need to be taken, especially in terms of the order that they need to be taken. These ideas crucially link back to my own project, because the structure of the narrative of my project is one of the main concepts that is aimed at being brought forward as the hero of the film Miles is starting his journey after leaving home and going in search of his hero. He is pictured in my project performing many tasks, such as hitchhiking and looking to others for help and guidance. This shows the structure of the narrative of my project and also the order in which events unfold which is what Joseph Campbell tries to do with the concept of mythology and how a hero completes the tasks and trials and the way he completes them.
There is evidence to show that George Lucas used the ideas of Joseph Campbell and monomyth to create the Star wars films with the structure of the different episodes of the star wars films and the trials and tribulations of Luke Skywalker becoming a Jedi throughout the Star Wars trilogy with the clear order of events of the trilogy of flms.