hi friends
I was just wondering cant we use movie for loci purpose
See movies in themselves are live colorful vivid full of energy
We remember movies…as we watch lots of
we can get around 60 70 loci from each movie minimum
More also we can make if needed…
wat do u say??
Plz do reply…
James Paterson (UK competitor) does this. He was explaining his technique to me for remembering numbers I think where he uses specific movie plots as loci. Like Gladiator…he splits up the movie into scenes and populates the scenes with images having to do with the numbers he memorizes. It was a pretty cool idea. That’s about all i know about it though…
I was just thinking about this. I think it would work best with sitcoms. I’m sure I could use the set of Seinfeld, the Simpsons, Friends, etc. as loci. Now that I think of it, there are a lot of movies that center around houses. I’m sure it would work.
I like the idea. If anyone tries this and finds a good movie, post the title here. 
I wonder if there are any movies with a long journey. Maybe Lord of the Rings would be a good one. It’s long, visually interesting, and there are a lot of maps published…
I started a wiki page for this topic:
I remember when I first got into this but didn’t do much about it in the mid 1990s reading about Jonathan Hancok using movies and soap operas. It’s an old tried and tested technique that works for some I guess.
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Euro trip? Theres a journey in the movie around Europe. If any of the people interested in travelling acan add images along the route, It would be very helpful
For those using movies for journeys there is a good resource at http://www.blakesnyder.com/archives/
Dozens of recent movies are analyzed and broken out into 15 standard “beats” that give you a good structure for compiling journeys from them.
If you memorize the 15 beat framework, you’ll have a tool for memorizing movie-journeys and constructing your own.
One movie that might work is Road to El Derado a children’s movie from the late 90’s. It has three/four very distinct areas, all which have an easy layout to remember. Same with Toy Story 1. A lot of older animated movies have those distinct, easy to remember settings.
Thread overlap, I posted about using Wizard of Oz on the Build Artificial Palaces thread but it would have been better here.
Josh I checked out the wiki you put together on this and can’t believe I didn’t think of the Harry Potter movies right away! Damn there must be a hundred journeys/palaces easy with well established resources to help build them from. Harry Potter…Damn…and here I was thinking of old school road trip movies like Cannonball Run.
Dale Man you always are passing down the knowledge!! I checked out the link and learned more about movie form and structure than I thought I ever needed. The beat sheet concept is brilliant especially for adapting movies into journeys.
I also found a website that is trying to start a beat sheet data base of sorts:
I’m not sure if it is going to be a valid resource or not yet as registration is required and I’m waiting on my password to be able to access the actual data.
Once again, I am humbled in the presence of those who have led the way.
Duc
Just a thought, look into movies that follow a journey. There’s tons of great movies such as The Lord of The Rings Trilogy, The Goonies, Labyrinth, Wizard of Oz, Return to Oz. I’m sure you’ll find plenty to choose from.
Found a blog where the “Movie Method” is spelled out pretty good for learning Kanji:
http://drmoviemethod.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-is-movie-method.html
I guess I can’t coin the term huh?
The deeper I look into these things the more I find I need to learn, what an awesome thing new knowledge is!
Duc
It’s long time to return to this post. I am checking and not understand much about the beats. Can anyone plz explaiin and show the details or example?
I don´t know if anyone is using just movies/shows locations -As the post on the houses of simpsons,seinfeld…- . I´d like to point out I´ve using scenes, not objects nor houses but specific memorable scenes in both movies and shows; A specific show I use is “The X files” without even trying after watching an episode I write down 10 scenes (I started with 25, then 20, now 10). I´ve been reading posts but I didnt find any using scenes, just so you add this to your posible new journeys, it´s quite easy and requires little review.
Note: I will also write this same post on Gavino’s MMS as this may help someone
Here is a clip from one of my all time favorite movies. The Cell. Its a torture scene but the visuals are so breathtaking that you can’t help but to remember the image. Another good movie is Inception. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlP9f8i-4c4
I know it’s very old thread but I have discovered a magic of memory not long ago and I guess that great movies for a creation of memory palaces are movies with a time loop motive like Source Code, Edge of Tomorrow, Back to the Future, Groundhog Day or Palm Springs. Other movies have to be played over and over again, but with these movies the environment is constantly repeated, maybe twenty times in 100-150 minutes of movie, so it is much more memorable and the environment sticks in the memory. At least that’s what I believe. What do you mean?
I agree that “repetitive” movies would help keeping the places in memory. TV series too because you have a ton of episodes often on the same places.
If you need your memory palace to be sequential and not dispersed, then a movie with a journey would work best (like the Lord of the Rings with Frodo going to Mordor, etc.)
This is an old thread but very interesting. Unfortunately most of the links are dead– although I did find two blogs still online explaining the movie method for kanji:
Kanji Eiga: Introduction - Heisig, Movie Method, and my Movie Method Modifications
and
The Movie Method in Action: Introductions: (tmmia.blogspot.com))
And one page explaining the beat sheet ( What is a Beat Sheet? - The Script Lab) with one example, but the databases giving the beat sheets for several movies unfortunately don’t exist anymore as far as I can tell.
I tried this recently using the 1956 movie Nightfall currently free on YouTube. My memory journeys are generally 17 or 26 stations long (I use multiple journeys if I need them). . In this movie, I decided to follow only the protagonist, skipping scenes that he wasn’t in. I was able to identify 17 different locations(sets) in the movie. My first station was the newsstand where the protagonist browsed, the second the bar in the restaurant …, the last was a snowplow where the protagonist was at the end of the movie. Works fine for me. The PAO images I place there seem to work as well as the physical journeys I have near my home. Part of that success was I loved this strange film noir movie and watched it several times.
