Lesson 5 Reflections and notes.

Reflections.

Lesson 5, lesson 5. What can i say about lesson 5? well, i’ll start by saying lesson 5 felt pretty ordinary though i like the certain non-conventional way of doing stuff in class like commenting on the 5o words essays that a few people read out in class. It everyone to interact and forces them to pay attention because you need to hear out their stories. We watched a french movie by that famous french director dude, Truffaut. I always have trouble remembering the titles and names, sorry. It was a nice movie, i felt it had a warm feel to it and that may be possibly due to the time it was set in. Seeing how the boys went about with their crush on that french lady was rather interesting and charming in a way. Oh, and we watched a short clip from the movie Taxi and wow,just hat short clip alone was enough to get me interested in the movie. The scenes we watched showed the a lot of the characteristics of the character played by Deniro. We got to see the way he thinks, his mentality, his outlook of the streets and the people on the streets. He thinks he is a moral person, wanting to clean up the streets and all yet he is a pretty cooked up fellow himself. It’s really intriguing.To think of it again, lesson 5 was actually quite fruitfull.

 

Notes.

Characters are the heart,soul and nervous system of your story. ( extremely true)

It is true your characters that viewers express emotions.

And “Yoda” ( Ryan) said :-

• Without characters, you have no action.
• Without action, yo have no conflict.
• Without conflict, you have no story.
• Without story, you have no screenplay. (dum dum!)

When developing a character,we should ask ourselves :-

• Who is my character?
• What does he want?
• What is her quest? How is it going to be done?
• What drives him to the resolution of the story? ( not a car of cause!, ” drum roll” )

3 dimensional characters .

1. Physiology
- the physical appearance.

2. Sociology- surroundings of the character

3. Psychology- mental state and emotions of the character

( i should refer to mel for the sheet that further elaborates on the above points )

Interior : what happens to the characters before the movie.

Exterior: What happens to them during the movie.

(STORYTELLING TOOL 2 : Memory)
By writing what I already know, I can relate better and convince the writer. However, we should write what we also do not know. Past memories and incidences can be used to write good stories. Tap the potential of one’s memory. here here!

Lesson 4 reflections and notes.

Reflections and only reflections.

This week’s lesson was cool. We got to watch the movie, ” Election”, and there was no actual lesson. I found the ides of watching a movie during class to explore Greek tragedies pretty decent, not to mention, there was no actual lesson. Since there was no actual lesson, there was no note taking which had to be done and i love not having to take notes. Well, “Election” was a good movie, i just love them MTV productions. Mr. Mcallister the protagonist in the movie meets his downfall at the end of the movie for doing something he thought was right which was morally wrong of course. Thus the movie is a Greek tragedy all though Mr. Mcallister is no Achilles.

Personally, i find the term ” Greek tradegy” kind of cool. It has a certain, masculine quality about it but i think im straying away from topic and yes, im doing it intentionally in an attempt to spice up my blog. I do realise my reflections are rather stale ( or so i think). Overall, awesome lesson this week. The sex scenes in the movie was damned gross and that women Mcallister was cheating his wife with a women who looked like a dude… Any-hows, cheerio.

Lesson 3 reflection and notes.

Reflection.

I found that in this lesson we begain to get down to some real work. We reviewed the openers and the stories each partner was supposed to write for the other based on one opener. I read my story out to the class and was able to get some good feedback. . Cliched endings, i should try to avoid those and i have be more aware of my habit of swithing between present and past tense. Lets not forget, class started later because of a fire drill, yes a fire drill that involved real fireman minus the real fire. We had group presentations for the aristotle research thing and we didn’t use powerpoint although my group did some slides… oh well… From what i noticed, Aristotle ( Greek lunatic) is one confusing dude but all of us manage to make some sense of his theories and stuff. I bet Alexander’s shuddering in his grave right now. To sum it all up, lesson 3 was still pretty interesting..

 Notes.

-Aristotles poetics : a book about the basic foundation of writing poems.

A greek tragedy is a drama genre and in it the heroes will die in the end.

In a greek tragedy the someone through fate will be punished for having to much confindense or pride in the end and things like the over confidence will lead to the downfall of the character.

6 Important parts.

1. PLOT : results of a mansactions determines hsi success and his failures. With no action there can be no tragedy.
2. Character
3. Thought : some kind of inteligent design to the plot structure.
4. Diction
5. Spectacle

According to aristotle a good story : shows rather than tells,creates cause-and-effect chain that clearly reveals what may happen and arouses not only pitty but fear as well,because memebers of the audience can imaigne themselves within the cause-and effect chain.

Cause and effect chain.

• Good plot of unity of action.
• It should be set in one place.
• Film breaks this rule.

Plot is most important aspect of tragedy and a plot is defines as  an arrangement of incidents,the structure of the play, the arrangement of how you communicate the important elements of the play and it is not the story itself but the way the incidents are presented to the audience. .

3 aspects of a plot.

1. The Begaining :- the incitive moment and it must start the cause and effect chain.
2. The middle :- The climax and it must be caused by earleir incidents.
3. The end :- Resolution, must be caused by the preceding events but not lead to new incidents.