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Week 3 – Telling a Story Visually

Writing Assignment — choose Fiction or NonFiction exercise as instructed (due next class or as specified in syllabus):

Writing-Assignment-3-Nonfiction // DUE NEXT WEEK

Textbook / Reading assignments on syllabus:

SCRIPTWRITING by Samuel Sloves (pdf)

16th Ed.MES 153 Handout Book

Short Films to view:

Kom (1995, dir./scr Marianne Ulrichsen, 4 mins.)  (or Here)

Lifted (2006, Gary Rydstrom, 5 mins.)

The Umbrella Man (2011, Errol Morris, 7 mins.)

Sit (2016, Yoko Okumura, 12 mins.)

The Red Balloon (Le rouge ballon) (1956, dir./scr. Albert Lamorisse) (Kanopy — off campus link — need to be logged in to BMCC Library to access)

        Pig! (1996, dir./scr. Francine McDougall)

       Bitch (2008, dir. Dom Bridges; scr. Ariel Gordon)

       Voyages d’affaires (The Business Trip) (2008. dir./scr. Sean Ellis)

       In Decision (2008,  dir./wri. Andrew Norton)

       Nzingha (2016, dir. Anderson Wright)

      Copycat (2015, dir. dir./wri. Charlie Shackleton)

Feature Film to view[BMCC Libraries Film Databases-link]

The Godfather (1972, dir. Francis Ford Coppola; scr. Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo, from the novel by Mario Puzo)  (Swank Digital Campus — off campus link — need to be logged in to BMCC Library to access)

Outlines to Short Films:

Step Outline-KOM

Step Outline-SIT

Tools of Analysis:

Pixars 22 Rules of Storytelling

Elements of Three Act Structure

3 Act Structure Breakdown

WHAT IS STORY?

Three Act Structure.Jim Soto glosses SYD_FIELD

Core Events-Protagonist.The Tortoise and the Hare

The Seven Basic Plots – Summary

Plot vs Story

Short Film Analysis Worksheet

153.Character worksheet

      Matt and Trey at NYU