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• Please read notes on slides 3,9,11,13,21,22,23,37,38,40
• Have Unit 2 lesson 1 Word Document storyboard ready to hand out on slide 22
• Have Unit 2 lesson I Word Document screenplay outline ready to hand out on slide 27
• Be sure you are ready to story board your relative’s story and place your story on a slide outline.
• Homework assessment on slide 40
Retell what happened
• In Chapter 4 of Slow Way Home• Each students take a turn saying one
sentence about what happened in Chapter 5.
Read aloud
• Chapter 5, Slow Way Home• What does the lady Senator think of
Brandon? His mother?• If you were directing a movie version
of Slow Way Home, who would you cast as Brandon’s mama?
Sunshine State Standard
• Subject Area: Reading/Language Arts• Strand: Writing Applications• Standard 1: Creative• LA.910.4.1.1 The student
will write in a variety of expressive and reflective forms that use a range of appropriate strategies and specific narrative techniques, employ literary devices, and sensory description
Teacher Component
• To create a unique learning community by writing with your students
• To model the process of writing for students with the understanding that teachers have to write drafts, too!
• To donate to the learning community by sharing your experiences and those of your family/friends through memoir
Teacher storytelling
• Your teacher will now read you one of the stories she has written based on a family or friend story.
Tell your relative’s story
• Read what you have written to your partner.
• After reading what you have written, tell any details that you think should be added.
Take Five
• Ok, your generation is a visual one. You were raised on movies and tv shows in a way that your parents and grandparents were not. When you think about stories, you usually see them rather than hear them. You see them as they might appear in a movie or on television.
Take Five
• Take five minutes and look over your stories.
• Decide which would make the best short movie or television program.
• Your teacher will do the same thing and share her results with you in just a few minutes.
Teacher Model
• Your teacher will now tell you which of the stories she has gathered from her relatives, or from her own experience, that she thinks would make the best movie and why.
What is a Storyboard?
• Once someone has a concept for a movie (that is a main idea about what the movie will be about), the screenwriter storyboards his movie.
Ok, next, you will take 20-30 minutes and try drawing your
storyboard• draw your story in five pictures.• You may use the handout and draw
small pictures, or • You may use five individual sheets of
paper
Remember
• you aren't trying to draw perfect pictures.
• Your goal is to imagine the five main scenes of your story, and rough sketch them,
• Then label your rough sketches.• Draw with pencil
Which Five?
• One way of deciding which five slides to include is to decide how your story might look if you wrote it out as a movie.
Almost every movie
• You will ever watch has this basic outline:
• Act I: The first thirty minutes set up the action, introduce you to the characters and prepare you for the first plot point which happens at the end of act I.
For example:
• In Shrek, Act I, or the set up, introduces you to the characters by putting you into the middle of the action: the Fairy Tale people are being sent away. Donkey gets away.
Plot Point
any incident that hooks into the action and spins it in another direction
In Shrek, the first plot point happens after Donkey meets Shrek. They decide to go rescue the princess. This is the first plot point.
Syd Field’s Screenplay Outline
Act 1 set up Act 2 confrontation Act 3 resolution
Sets up the action; establishes relationships
30 minutes
Main character encounters obstacles that keep him/her from achieving his/her dramatic need
60 minutes
Loose ends of story are tied up
30 minutes
Plot Point 1
Moves the action in a new direction
Plot Point 2
Moves the action in a new direction
Plot point: any incident that hooks into the action and spins it in another direction
Act 2: Confrontation
• This is the longest bit of the movie. A confrontation occurs that tests the main character and keeps him from getting what he wants. Usually it is a series of events.
• In Shrek, Shrek and Donkey fight the dragon, and rescue the princess, but Shrek doesn’t really get the princess
Plot point 2
• The action spins around into Act 3 when the princess is taken to marry the king and donkey reveals that the princess loves Shrek.
• Now, Shrek must go after the princess.
Syd Field’s Screenplay Outline
Act 1 set up Act 2 confrontation Act 3 resolution
Sets up the action; establishes relationships
30 minutes
Main character encounters obstacles that keep him/her from achieving his/her dramatic need
60 minutes
Loose ends of story are tied up
30 minutes
Plot Point 1
Moves the action in a new direction
Plot Point 2
Moves the action in a new direction
Plot point: any incident that hooks into the action and spins it in another direction
Act 3: Resolution
• In the last 30 minutes of the movie, the loose ends are tied up and the movie has a comfortable conclusion.
• In Shrek, donkey and Shrek come into the wedding and rescue the princess again. Shrek and the princess kiss. The movie ends when the princess becomes an ogre for good.
Syd Field’s Screenplay Outline
Act 1 set up Act 2 confrontation Act 3 resolution
Sets up the action; establishes relationships
30 minutes
Main character encounters obstacles that keep him/her from achieving his/her dramatic need
60 minutes
Loose ends of story are tied up
30 minutes
Plot Point 1
Moves the action in a new direction
Plot Point 2
Moves the action in a new direction
Plot point: any incident that hooks into the action and spins it in another direction
To Review:
• As a class, choose a movie that most of you are familiar with.
• Talk about how the movie divides into three acts with plot points.
• What is the set up? • The first plot point?• What are the main obstacles to be
confronted in Act II?• What is the second plot point?• How is the plot resolved?
Syd Field’s Screenplay Outline
Act 1 set up Act 2 confrontation Act 3 resolution
Sets up the action; establishes relationships
30 minutes
Main character encounters obstacles that keep him/her from achieving his/her dramatic need
60 minutes
Loose ends of story are tied up
30 minutes
Plot Point 1
Moves the action in a new direction
Plot Point 2
Moves the action in a new direction
Plot point: any incident that hooks into the action and spins it in another direction
How does your story fit?
• Now, try to plot your story onto the screenplay diagram.
• What could you make as the set up? Plot point 1? The confrontation? Plot point 2? The resolution?
Teacher time!
• Now, your teacher is going to show how she can fit his/ her story onto the diagram. As she talks, draw a screenplay outline on your paper, and try to fit your story onto the outline.
Syd Field’s Screenplay Outline
Act 1 set up Act 2 confrontation Act 3 resolution
Sets up the action; establishes relationships
30 minutes
Main character encounters obstacles that keep him/her from achieving his/her dramatic need
60 minutes
Loose ends of story are tied up
30 minutes
Plot Point 1
Moves the action in a new direction
Plot Point 2
Moves the action in a new direction
Plot point: any incident that hooks into the action and spins it in another direction
Tomorrow: Pitching your movie
• You will learn how Hollywood screenwriters sell their movie ideas to producers.
• You will learn what a pitch is and how to pitch your own movie.
Homework
• Call another elderly relative you haven’t talked to in a while, or call the same relative you have already called.
• Tell her you want to know more about her life and would love to hear (more) stories about her best friend when she was younger, or her favorite pet.
• If she can’t think of a story, ask her to tell you about her first boyfriend or girlfriend. Write down the story. Bring it to class tomorrow.
• You will be asked to read this story aloud, not just tell it, so be certain that you write it out as carefully as possible.