hey creatives and welcome to magical
mystical mythical Monday if we have
never met before my name is Kim and I'm
a creative freelance with a passion for
film in the written word and if we have
met welcome back and on today's magical
mystical mythical Monday we're talking
steampunk wait on magical mystical
mythical Monday that's right steampunk
let's get started all right guys so I
know that steampunk seems like a odd
thing to talk about a magical mystical
mythical Monday but a lot of steampunk
has a very magical element and some even
have a mystical element and so we'll
talk about a couple examples at the end
of that of the genre and film and the
written word but first let's talk about
the five elements that are super key to
steampunk which by the way and 2010 was
put into the oxford dictionary so it is
legit it has always been legit but now
more people know what it is so the five
elements that define steampunk can be
kind of wrapped up into different they
can all mean different things to
different there's all kinds of different
types of steampunk I think is what I'm
trying to say do you have cyberpunk you
have steampunk you have you know dungeon
Punk I think is something so it's taking
steampunk and then genering it out
to fantasy and sci-fi and horror let's
talk about the five main elements that
can and you can utilize it in any way
you want so the first element is a
nostalgic view of simpler times it's
very much centered about romance like
almost every steam punk themed piece of
work has a certain romance to it because
I think in our mind sometimes we think
romantic equals simpler and it goes back
to a different time period a lot of the
time the Victorian age seems to be the
center but you can spin it any way you
want just as long as it has these five
elements in it it should be still housed
underneath the steampunk genre so the
the next element is a retro element and
it kind of goes hand in hand with the
simpler time romantic feeling is it
tends to be set in the past now I don't
think for me
it's limited to be in the Victorian age
I think you can play with the thought
process because I will say to you as an
example I would say there are steam punk
like qualities in Joss Whedon's Firefly
there are steam punk like qualities in
that movie but it's not set in the past
it's set in the future so you can use
elements of this to drive whatever story
you want if you like the aesthetic and
the principle of steampunk so though
typically it would be in the past how
can what if you took the past and made
at the future you know I'm saying like
you can do all kinds of fun stuff with
it so another element of steampunk is
the fuel element this is something that
is super key to steampunk it is no
fossil fuel that's why a lot of the
times it is set in Victorian age because
that was the steam era so hence the name
steampunk so it has to have an
alternative form of fuel so steam is the
primary idea but as an example you could
have magic be that your your story's
version of steam as long as it's not
fossil fuel you're still within the
housing of steampunk another element is
the contraption element and this is
basically has lots of cool innovations
and gadget but they're all powered by
whatever your chosen form of fuel is so
of course steam they're all things that
are super familiar to us but maybe
wouldn't have even been thought of
without the use of this fuel source so
it's it makes it look futuristic with
still looking antiquey super actually
it's really a cool aesthetic to be
truthful like I'm not I'm not even sure
I wouldn't put it as like a decor like
a whole room of steampunk themed
furniture and that kind of stuff that
would be kind of cool actually
okay sidetrack you know bright shiny
things squirrel kind of idea all right
and then the last element that we're
going to talk about is the materials
element I've already talked about the
fact that steampunk doesn't use fossil
fuel right it has to be some sort of
alternative fuel source
it also doesn't use plastics there's no
plastics so there's a lot of copper and
wood a natural element and material so I
think those are
that's key to the whole aesthetic to the
whole principle to the whole idea so
guys that's five element of steampunk
that you can use to create whatever kind
of cool story you're thinking of and so
some examples of steampunk let's talk
about the examples examples of steampunk
in film our movies like League
of Extraordinary Gentlemen Sherlock
Holmes anime Fullmetal Alchemist
and in literature the granddaddy's of
them all Jules Verne HG Wells of course
there's plenty of more examples and
literature just dive into it if you guys
are super interested in steampunk
honestly Google steampunk and I'll put
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even heard of steampunk let me know in
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