Project Brief 2 results

We will continue operation WWW (workshopping your wonderful worlds), and also go through what’s required of you in the pitch presentation and for Project Brief 3 more broadly.

Great workshops (and breakthroughs!) so far. The more you can bring to the workshop table, obviously, the more your collaborators have to work with.

If you’re thinking about your world between now and then, you might look back on our previous resources, brainstorms and activities, or this new reading from Robert McKee’s ‘Story’ (1999).

Look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday 🙂

Jule Selbo quote from the session today (Weds Week 6)…

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Stayci

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‘I suggest that the screenwriter, in each screenplay, constructs a specific universe for specific characters suited to bringing out distinctive storyline elements and thematic threads and discards other ‘real world’ elements that could distract the audience from narrative and thematic comprehension’ (Selbo, 2010: 276) (my emphases).

This coming week (Week 6) – YOU are the set texts

Posted on April 2, 2017 by Stayci

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!

What makes a world? Part II

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Stayci

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

Linda Aronson’s theme exercise…

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Stayci

…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.

Week 5 reading

Posted on March 26, 2017 by Stayci

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