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!