Below is the list from our post 9 March when we first brainstormed the question:

cultures

political structures

setting (and, we agreed, this is a wide category in itself)

boundaries (which relates to setting and character backstories)

character backstory as tool for exploring limitations and responses to world >>> Boundaries of the world

rules (internal logic)

genre (which affects the way you present the world and also the rules of it)

social constructs

political structures

incentive

pressure/outside forces

scope of characters

problems e.g. post apocalyptic

Yesterday, after three weeks of exploring and analysing ‘world’, we had these elements to add (thanks to Dana for taking notes!)

Elements that shape a world:

• Tone
• Ideologies
• Weather/climate/environmental conditions
  > isolation/remote versus freedom/community/connectedness
• Allusion to worlds previously created/explored
• Colour/costume
• Pace
  > how points of escalation occur
  > city – frenzied
• Sound
• Rhythm

…that inspired our world brainstorming exercise today.

I may or may not be sharing this for the sole purpose of showing the difference between using the flow chart and mind map methods.

Cued by the Ganz reading (p. 8), we watched the opening scenes of The Apartment (1960).

We discussed the big print, the tone set therein, and made some script-to-screen comparisons.

For those who were absent, or those wanting to read the whole script by I.A.L Diamond and Billy Wilder (and it’s a beauty), here’s a PDF.