Writing Assignment — (due as specified in syllabus/on Blackboard):

Writing-Assignment-4: Loglines & Step Outlines   

Textbook / Reading assignments on syllabus):

Nonfiction Project Guidelines  – Sample Nonfiction Project (Word)    –  Sample Nonfiction Project (pdf)

Log Lines

The Luckiest Woman on Earth.Harpers       The Luckiest Woman on Earth.Word

       Sample Nonfiction Project Step Outline (Word)      Sample Nonfiction Project Step Outline (pdf)

Article.Inventing Anna Source.Jessica Pressler.NYMag.2018       Article.Inventing Anna.Making of.Jessica Pressler.NYMag.2022

Step Outline: LUCKIEST WOMAN ON EARTH – Version-1-(Word)    Luckiest-Woman-Step-Outline-1-1 (pdf)

Step Outline: LUCKIEST WOMAN ON EARTH – Version-1 with supporting text-(Word)    Luckiest-Woman-Step-Outline-1-wsupporting-text (pdf)

Step-Outline:LUCKIEST WOMAN ON EARTH – Version-2 (Word)      Luckiest-Woman-Step-Outline-2-1 (pdf)

Step Outline: LUCKIEST WOMAN ON EARTH – Version-2 with supporting text (Word)      Luckiest-Woman-Step-Outline-2-wsupporting-text (pdf)

(MES 153-5000 A-V Script Template) (MES 153-1400.A-V Script Template)

Nonfiction Project.Treatment-AV examples

Nonfiction.Documentary Modalities-Evidence

SCRIPTWRITING by Samuel Sloves (pdf)

16th Ed.MES 153 Handout Book

Short Films to view:  [BMCC Libraries Film Databases – link]

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 Civil War: Gettysburg (1990, Ken Burns, 9 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

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

      Matt and Trey at NYU