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.