Wed April 24

"Top Chef" team projects due to be presented on Monday. And please bring the items your team purchased, receipts, and any visual materials for presentation. (you may use your blog to post images or story boards.)

Mon Apr 22

We will complete sharing your stores based on the photograph on Wednesday.

READ in text pages 93-116, so we can discuss collaboration.

We will complete discussion of BEAVER TRILOGY. For an interesting interview with the filmmaker, go to: http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/archives/online_features/beaver_trilogy_PRINT.php

Wed Apr 17

Read text pages 93-116, and be prepared to discuss in class on Monday.

Write a 1-2 (only!) page story using your chosen photograph as the middle of the story. You will create the beginning and the ending. Bring a hard copy of this story to class on Monday. Please make sure you consider and use the 4 main elements of story, as we have discussed.

We will continue with the 2nd and 3rd parts of "Beaver Trilogy." Please consider what the filmmaker's opinion(s) are of Groovin' Gary, and what do YOU think of this real person. How has the filmmaker affected your opinion? We will discuss this further on Monday.

Wed. April 10

We will complete sharing the dream/character story on Monday. Please remember to post to your blog an image (1-3) that expresses the feeling, mood, state of your story.

Here are 2 of the resources that Bill Conway mentioned, about good writing books:
The Writer's Journey, by Christopher Vogler
Save the Cat, by Blake Snyder

Wed Apr 3

Assignment for next Monday: a 1-2 page story and 1-3 images that illustrate the feeling of it.

Create a story by putting your created (observed) character in to a story based on something from your dream journal. You may use elements of several dreams or just one specific dream. You do not have to stay logical or "real," this is a dream story, so surrealism and illogic are perfectly acceptable. You must have the 4 elements of story, setting, character, conflict and resolution.

Write a 1 to 2 page story, bring hard copy to class. Additionally, post 1 to 3 images on your blog (or bring hard copy) that illustrates the mood, emotion or feelings of the story.

Everyone will share their dream story and image(s) in class.

AND watch "Spoken Word" before next Wed 4/10. There is copy on reserve in the archives.

Mon April 1

Assignment: read pages 80-92 in text. We will discuss on Wednesday.

Bring your dream journal (if different from the journal you typically use in class).

Wed Mar 27

Emotional Montage due Monday. Please post these to your blog or bring hard copies to class.

Watch SPOKEN WORD, available on reserve in the archives. The film's producer/writer will be visiting class in the next week.