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)
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:
Tools of Analysis:
Pixars 22 Rules of Storytelling
Elements of Three Act Structure
Three Act Structure.Jim Soto glosses SYD_FIELD
Core Events-Protagonist.The Tortoise and the Hare