Congratulations on all of your presentations yesterday; as I adjourned with the panelists, phrases such as ‘blown away’ were on high rotation.

Also, thanks for weathering the storms of unreliable technology, and helping each other with solutions.

On Wednesday (first session Week 8, 27 April) we will begin with a follow up with a chance for you to feedback to each other, and to watch the videos we missed (namely Liam’s, due to technical glitches, and the full video presentations from Marco and Olivia, which were watched by the panel after the session because of time constraints).

No official set texts this week, instead:

Work on delivery of Project Brief 3.

From next week, come to the sessions with any work in progress. We will talk about how the workshopping process will proceed on Wednesday.

is HERE .

For those who were absent, the order was generated by random draw.

…containing the ‘logline builder’ is this PDF: Kathie Fong Yoneda on Pitching

An inspiration not only for his work as a screenwriter – The Man Who Sued God (2001), script editor – The Adventures of Lano and Woodley (1997), creator – The Games (1998), master satirist – Clarke & Dawe (1989) and being a NZ national treasure, he also credits his time at university for sparking his creativity and maintained a blog right through to last month.

John Clarke (1948-2017). Let’s hope he’s gone to Another World…

Hi (Another) Worldly Ones,

Thanks for another great week of insightful discussion and deliberation as we delve into this concept of world.

With three studio sessions (and, yes, the mid-semester break) before your pitch presentations, it’s now time to workshop your unique, imaginary worlds!

Please come to Wednesday prepared to discuss your ideas, however introductory.

You might choose to consider:

a) the growing list of elements that make up a world that you’ve been devising as a group

and/or

b) our Google doc listing audio, visual and audiovisual examples of previously created worlds

and/or

c) this list of considerations summarised from Craig Batty’s chapter Creating a World. Some of these are for further down the development track, certainly, but may be useful to start thinking about.

If you are drawn to this text, there are hard copy and online versions of the full book available through the library.

Excited to hear your ideas next week!

Hi everyone,

As we head into constructing your own worlds, we’ll explore the genres, forms and media within they might be housed.

Please read this chapter on genre before Wednesday, and come with at least one comment or question about it to kickstart our discussion.

Look forward to heading into the creation process!

See you next week,

Stayci

I can’t make this one, sadly, but it looks like a great one for those of you wanting to get into the industry.

HOW TO GET YOUR FIRST JOB IN TV, Dan O’Connell, Wednesday 12 April, 7pm

If anyone attends, would love to hear all about it after mid-semester break!

Thanks, everyone, for another really great week.

The details of the second half of the Thursday studio (building our collection of ‘world’ resources), including what we viewed/heard and what’s coming up, are in this Google doc in our shared Drive.

Your contributions have made for an inspiring collection of existing visual and aural worlds so far, a very rich resource as we head into the phase of creating your own!