Notes for week VIII December 14, 2006

Week 8 Notes
Story is Action
- Action is any kind of activity, movement, interaction of characters with their surroundings.
- Talking about feelings is not as powerful as illustrating why you feel this way through your actions.
Film is behaviour
- Actions are simply the manifestations of behaviour
- Human emotions are understood by watching the actions and reactions of [...]

Lecture Notes Wk 7 December 7, 2006

Functions of Dialogue:
- Conveys messages of the story
- Explore characters’ emotions
- Explore characters’ personalities
- Creates moods
- Shows relationship between characters
- Makes the film more interesting
Dialogue reveals character.
- A character talks about himself or herself.
- Other people talk about that character.
Dialogue establishes relationships between characters.
- Characters express attitudes and opinions that are in opposition to one [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I finally found my Week 1 Notes! October 25, 2006

So, for assignments, I will have to write in:
-Present tense
-3rd person, he/she
-active voice

!ACTIVE VOICE! & *passive voice*
Passive voice
-uses weak verbs
-tells rather than shows what’s going on
-distances the reader from the story
Active voice
-uses strong action verbs
-shows the action
-uses an immediate sentence structure
-conveys the story in a lively manner

Erm, I spent half an hour looking [...]