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Let's storyboard your ideas

Let's take your nugget of an idea and make it into something. Remember when we did the mind map?  Take an idea and apply  Now take the ideas and storyboard your idea as a writer.  To get started, break down your story into a set of discrete scenes; each scene will become its own storyboard. Next, choose a scene and start to lay down the context: Where does the scene take place? Who is in the scene? What do the "characters" say? How do they react? What happens next? Repeat as necessary  What ends up as the "moral" of the story?
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Using the Hero's Journey

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Using the Hero's Journey to help you shape your profile.  Star Wars   (1977) 1.   The ordinary world . Luke lives with his aunt and uncle on a farm on Tatooine. He likes to stare at the sunset and dream of “teleporting off this rock”. 2.   The call to adventure . R2-D2 plays Luke a message of distress from Princess Leia, who needs someone to transport the droid to Alderaan. 3.   Refusal of the call . Luke isn’t thrilled about leaving his home planet and getting in trouble from his uncle to go on a wild goose chase. 4.   The mentor . Obi-Wan Kenobi convinces Luke to follow his heart by showing him his father’s lightsaber. 5.   Crossing the threshold . Luke and Obi-Wan leave Mos Eisley for Alderaan. 6.   The ordeal . Leia’s rescue from the Death Star, and later, Luke using the Force to destroy the Death Star. 7.   The return . Luke joins the rebels and decides to become a Jedi. The Matrix   (1999) 1.   The ordinary...
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MCOM 101 Part II

What is in store for the rest of the semester? Improving your storytelling Learning storyboarding Reading War of Art The art of interviewing Simple audio and video techniques Being on time On conducting interviews  Part One – The agenda Determine the purpose or goal of the interview. Develop a brief statement that tells why this interview is being conducted. Specifically identify how this information will be used. Make a list of the information required. Draft questions that, when answered, will provide the necessary information to satisfy your goal.  Make the questions  flow.  Part Two – Questions and questioning techniques Open questions  – questions of feeling, perspective, prejudice or stereotypes "How would you?"  Make the demand about something.   Closed questions  – yes/no tunnel sequence often needs more open and probing questions to round out the interview.  Probing questions  – Follow-up qu...
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GET INVOLVED

Avalon Submissions Monday, September 30 Avalon Submissions  are now being accepted. Submissions of poetry, artwork, photography, short stories, comics, musical compositions, and more for our Fall Digital Edition! Final day for submissions is October 18th. Please send to  avalon@su.edu  with text attached as a Word document and artwork in high-quality JPEG format. Young Screenwriters Conference 
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How to become a sought-after story teller

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The Great Communicator A teller of stories, the person who everyone goes to in order to hear interesting details, get the nuance, "see" the story they missed.  What do these people have in common? They are good communicators.  Why is being a good communicator important?  “communication is a symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired and transformed”          (James W. Carey)                         Our stories help define our culture  We know who we are by the stories we tell each other and the stories that we accept.               We judge people, places, events, EVERYTHING based on our self-definition.                      Culture as a Skyscraper: High culture Low culture       ...
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The Art Bus

You are about to take your photos skills out into the world to tell even more stories.  Here is a PDF that will tell you what we will be seeing on the bus.  Here is some additional information about the art bus You will be doing one assignment based on what you see Before and After  Sometimes artists create multiple works of art to tell a whole story. Sometimes they only show us part of a story, leaving the rest up to us and our imaginations. Chose an artwork that seems to have a story. Examine the scene and then sketch what you imagine might have occurred before or after the moment the artist chose to represent. You will do a puke to work out what that moment might be, then you will figure out a way to take photos of that moment. You have many options here:  you can make artwork yourself and take a photo of it you can make an abstract photo  You will use these photos to tell a story of that next moment. You will also do reflection of what you did...
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Making something visual

What does it mean to think visually? How does a picture story differ from a collection of pictures on a topic? A picture story has a theme. Not only are the individual pictures in the story about one subject, but they also help to support one central point” Let’s look at what a powerful image can do.  Let’s look at the different camera angles and what they can evoke in the viewer.  Here is a mashup that reminds up that good fundamentals can always play together. Think beyond the moment.    Places2Faces assignment. A place A face A place with faces Faces in places The first photo should establish the location of your story – what does it look like? color? texture? geography? architecture? The second photo should establish a face that is central to your story – who lives/works/exists here? what do they look like? how does the place show in their face? The third photo should fill the place with some faces – interior? movement? uses of the ...
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