Lecture Notes Wk 6 November 30, 2006

Oh, I actually forgot there were notes for week 6 until I wanted to study Aristotle. Here goes!
Week 6 “Writing for an Audience”
Writing for an audience
Screenwriter = storyteller
The cinematic experience is not just made up of words you might put on paper, but the audiences’ emotional reaction to that information.
X Director to people
X Writer to [...]

6th Reflection November 25, 2006

Emotions. What an overused word. Everything has got something to do with it. And I realised that in every single Storytelling tutorial, I hear this word very frequently. Is it because we do not know what else to replace the word with and that’s why we always use it as an escape route whenever Ryan [...]

Lecture Notes Wk 5 November 22, 2006

Character
A story starts with character.
The character is the heart, the soul and nervous system of your story.
It is through your characters that the viewers experience emotions.
It is through your characters that they are touched.
Without character, you have no action.
Without action, you have no conflict.
Without conflict, you have no story.
Without story, you have no screenplay.
When developing [...]

A reflection for Week 5? November 22, 2006

Oh my gawd. I actually forgot Week 5’s reflection until now. I was kinda busy with erm… some stuff over the weekend.
Week 5’s Storytelling was rather interesting. We watched this old film, which I suppose has some depth to it (though I really couldn’t see how). We also watched a small part of another film [...]

4th Reflection November 13, 2006

Hello! Hello! Hello!
Ryan was right. My reflection is losing it’s thang. And I shall attempt to bring it back because I’m so hyped up right now. Lol.
Let’s see now, Friday we watched this movie called (The) Election. It’s a pretty intriguing movie though I’ve got no idea why Ryan said it might be disturbing to [...]

Notes for week three November 7, 2006

What is Plot?
Story is bigger than the plot itself – things tht occurred before the film started/after
- Plot is the actual arrangement of incidents that occurs in the film
- It is not the story itself, but the way the incidents are presented to the audience
- The structure of the play
- The most important feature [...]

Refelection for week 3 November 4, 2006

With each passing week, this reflection seems more and more like a chore. But nonetheless, I’m doing it.
This week in class we started with the discussion of our 50-word stories. We were to note down what the stories are about and what works for them and what doesn’t. It was nice to listen to what [...]