For our first sessions together, we’ll be asking ‘What is story?’ What are the characteristics that every story has to have? We’ll also be exploring a number of ways to analyse those stories, and maybe think about planning our own.

In preparing for class, make your way through the set ‘readings.’ These include the really engaging video by Andrew Stanton, who has worked at Pixar for many years, and is probably responsible in some way for many of your favourite childhood films!

We’ll also be listening to Orson Welles’ original broadcast of The War of the Worlds, which I think will be interesting after you’ve listened to the Radiolab episode about it. And if you’ve not subscribed to Radiolab, just do it: it’s amazing.

Get into it, and I look forward to meeting you all in Week 1!