Lesson 7 Reflections and Notes.

Reflections.

Weeks 7.

Today for lesson, we had a test first and than we had a normal class. The test was short and sweet, the kind I like. By the end of lesson, I began to ask myself, “ How do you make a story believable?” and this was inspired from the true or false assignment that we had to do for this weeks lesson. Now, I’m not just saying this to show I was able to reflect from class, but it was a serious question that kept ringing in my mind. A person could write a story that is true yet it may seem unbelievable and vice-versa but I guess it takes someone skilled to write something that is not true yet make it believable.

I thought about it and it would actually be pretty easy to make a fake story believable if it contained simple happenings that could actually happen in everyday life to anyone, but how do you write about something that is somewhat out of this world or seemingly outrageous or totally out of the norm and yet make the reader believe it? If I wrote a story about me marrying a penguin, for example (a bad one I know), how could I make it sound believable? I guess there’s a line that divides what may actually be believable and what really can never be made to sound believable. How about including believable characters in unbelievable stories? Does that make sense? Are fictional stories with very believable characters better to read than outrageously out of this world characters? Am I making any sense, help me out here Monsieur Ryan.

Notes.
Functions of dialogue. 

-To express characters personalities.

-Communicates emotions

-tells of past or future event

-reveals new information,twists to the audience

-Express culture

Elements of dialogue.

Dialogue reveals character

- A character talks about himself or herself

-other people talk about character

Dialogue establishes relationships between characters

- Characters express attitudes and opinions that are in opposition to one another

-good effective dialogue will move the story forward.

Dialogue communicates faces and information to the audience.

-It conveys essential exposition

-characters will talk about what happened establishing the story line.

Note: It is plot based information that should be given to your audience.

Dialogue ties the script together.

BAD THINGS about dialogue!

- Tell to much

-tell everything instead of showing

-corny dialogue!

TIPS!

-use dialogue sparingly

-never telling the aduience what they can see for themselves

-Dialogue is no substitue for action

- Dialogue should match conventional speaking, “real talking”.

- Never tell to much.

Lesson 6 Reflections and Notes.

Reflections

Lesson 6 started off pretty normal, we just read out our letter to the past in a small groups which found more comfortable doing as opposed to reading it aloud to the whole class. It was not until Ryan read out his own letter to the past that the lesson took an emotional turn. We got to learn something about Ryan and his past. That’s when it struck me. A writer should be able to bring emotions in the reader. Emotions is something I’m not very comfortable with, but i guess as a writer, you have to face the different emotions that linger within oneself and use this emotions and channel them into the stories we write. In a way, we are making ourselves face our own feelings as we take a deeper look within ourselves. To tell you the truth, i did think of faking my letter to the past but i decided against it. I decided to try it out, try writing about how I feel. After all, people are emotional beings and there is no running away from that.

We also learnt that experience was the third story telling tool. “Experience”, sounds simple enough but what does it really imply? How do i really tap my past experiences and pen them down and make a good story out of it? I guess to do that, i must first come to terms with my feelings and problems and who knows, maybe peace can be found through writing about them. “Self-expression”, this term kept ringing in my head at the end of lesson. I shall try writing anything to express myself, that would be some good practice maybe even therapeutic. The aim or one the aims of today’s lesson i presume is to show us that a writer has to be able to convey his messages to the reader and get them interested. Arousing feelings within the reader would be a good way to do this. Well, guess I would have to get in touch with my inner self…. ( whimpers)

Notes.

” A virginal heart has its logic”

-Writing for an audience.
-Screen Writer = Storyteller.

The cinematic experience is not just made of words you might put on paper,but the audience’s emotional reaaction.

Writing is people to people.

Writers purpose.
-To connect themselves,their unique vision,their material, the drama and others.

People want to be connected to the movie. They one to feel something, possibly to relate themselves.

Where to look for a story?
- Inside yourself
-Everything to learn about people.

Storytelling tool 3: Experience
- All people have fragment of stories.
-There potential ideas prompt your desire to know more
-respond emotionally and intellectually