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.

Mon Mar 25

In order to make sure everyone gets peer feedback, please bring your story concept worksheets again on Wednesday, we will complete this.

Jess wanted to show a short--but it was too long for class. "I'm Here" is linked in the short films list to the right. Take a look.

Wed Mar 20

Emotional Montage due next Monday. Please post 2 sets of 3 images to your blog (or bring hard copy to class to share.)

Bring your 3 story concept worksheets to class. We will continue to do evaluations for all 3 of everyone's stories.

Monday Mar 18

Emotional Montage assignment (2 sets of 3 images) due next Monday 3/25. (the assignment is posted in the pages box, to the right)

Watch "Spoken Word" before next Wednesday 3/27.

We will continue evaluations of story concept worksheets in the next class. Bring them to class.

Monday Mar 4

begin your DREAM JOURNAL, to record dreams and collect more raw material for new stories. Read about "capturing dream images" in Creative Filmmaking page 152. There are many resources on the web for this also. For example: squidoo.com/how-to-remember-dreams

3 Story Concept Worksheets due Wed. March 6, which is your mid-term project.

Wed. Feb 27

Assignment: read Creative Filmmaking, pages 71-80.

Mid-term: 3 Story Concept Worksheets due next Wednesday March 6.

Mon. Feb 25

Assignment: Revise your dialog piece, using a different genre. Using the same characters, situation and conversation re-write it in a new genre of your choosing. Make sure the words that the character speak utilize the style of the genre you have chosen. Everything can be changed, except the original "over heard" line.

Wed. Feb 20

1) Please read next chapter in Creative Filmmaking, pages 63-68, and be prepared to discuss in class.

2) Find (discover, uncover, overhear, eaves drop, etc.) one line (question, statement, or other verbal utterance) spoken by a real person, and use that line in a created dialog of your own. This "overheard" sentence may be the initiation of your dialog, or it may appear in the middle or the end of the dialog. Your assignment is to create a spoken fiction from something you hear.

This should be short, approximately 1 page, and bring this dialog to class Monday.

Mon. Feb 18

Assignment: read Creative Filmmaking, pgs. 47-63. Be prepared to discuss on Wednesday.

We will complete reading Evocative Object stories and Evocative Object with changed genre stories on Wednesday.

Wed. Feb 13

Develop and refine 1) story based on the pen & ink drawing (in the hallway by The Screen); 2) your initial story based on the evocative object; 3) another version of the evocative object story with your change of genre.

Please turn in hard copy of each of the 3 stories, and be prepared to share one or more in class.

Bring your evocative object to class on Monday.

Monday Feb 11

Assignment for Wednesday: Please bring to class an

EVOCATIVE OBJECT

something you have that has special meaning for you, that is evocative of a memory, event, person, place.... etc. An object that represents something important in your life.

Wed. Feb. 6

Assignments:

1) Review text page 70 "taking note" and consider these categories of observed material to add to your journal. As part of this, choose a place (indoors or out) you will spend 20 minutes sitting, observing. Observe as much as possible in this place using all 5 senses, then write for 5 minutes a full description of the place. POST this to your blog before Monday 2/11 class.

2) As the start of a long-term assignment, please choose a person to observe. This should be someone you see and will see often in the next months, but not someone who you know. You need to begin to watch this person and observe all the details you can, recording in your journal with text or sketches. How do they walk? stand? move? gesture? sit? interact with other people? How does the person dress? etc.

Mon. Feb. 4

we will finish viewing your images for the family story on Wednesday. I still do not have addresses for blogs from the entire class. Send those!

Please read the interview (linked in the previous post) with Steven Soderbergh and post your comments and/or thoughts.

"movies don't matter anymore..."

What do you think?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jan/30/steven-soderbergh-retires-from-film

post your comments, please.

Wed. Jan. 30

Assignments:

1) Completion of your family story: post 6 images to your blog that show the themes of the family story. These may illustrate the plot of the story, but most importantly they should communicate the theme(s) and why it is important in your family culture. Remember, show, don't tell.

2) read Creative Filmmaking, pages 29-44. Be prepared to discuss ideas presented here in class on Monday.

Mon. Jan 28

Assignments:
1) create a blog that you will use to share your work in this class. Blogger, Tumblr, Pinterest are all good. You do not need to pay for a blog, use a host site that is FREE! Once it is created, please email me the web address and/or invitation to follow your blog.

2) out line a family story. Bring in a simple outline of a story that is told in your family. (what happens, to whom, where and why?)  It should be something that happened before you were born, that you are not involved in. Also write a paragraph describing why this is important in your family culture.

Wed. Jan 23

Homework: read pages 1 thru 29 in text, Creative Filmmaking. We will discuss next week.

To answer Max's question (and sorry I didn't have this information in class) the short film "Jerry's Time: Naked Swim" is by Jerry and Orrin Zucker. You will see a link to this on YouTube to the right.

Welcome

Welcome to Ideation Film 1117 Section 1, Spring 2013.

This blog will serve as information dissemination for the class, and assignments, resources and background material will be found here. Please let me know if you have suggestions for other material or information that will benefit the class.

you can always reach me via the SFUAD email: kent.kirkpatrick@santafeuniversity.edu