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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...

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 

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       ...