Day 3: Story, Character & Dialogue
2pm Gather at Function Room 3 @ Teresaville.
Fill in the Play Idea Worksheet
Using the lists of values you hold, issues that are important to you, your lifes influential experiences, brainstorm ideas for plays.
2:40-3:30 Lecture about Characters
Brainstorm idiosyncrasies, personality traits.
1. The audience will learn about your character by what he says/does, and what he doesn't say or do.
2. Also by what others in the play say about him or how they treat him.
3. Your audience can only know as much about the characters as YOU know about them. If you don't know them all WELL, they will be cardboard, and boring.
4. Characters are not ALL GOOD or ALL BAD. Everyone is a mix of strengths and weaknesses. Know what these are. Include them in your play.
5. Your protagonis should be likeable (or no one will care what happens to him)
Watch Sample: WEST WING, Scene with Pres Bartlett entering the hallway before his speech. Stops to tie shoe and stops to pray. Scene with Josh, Donna, Joey Lucas and Interpretter about the polling. What do you learn about these characters. What is unique?
Watch Sample: A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS take note of what you learn about the Kids, Aunt Josephine and Captain Sham? What makes them interesting and unique?
3:30-4:00 Handout: Instant Character Analysis
Choose your protagonist in one of your play ideas and let’s go through the list. FAST.
4:00-4:30 Lecture on Dialogue with samples (Read: "Single" and "Body Schisms")
4.30pm - 6.30pm Personal writing time and appointments with K!M about your ideas.
6.45pm-7.30pm Dinner time at the apartment.
7:30 - 8:00 Kimberly proves her lack of techinical skills by trying to use the family sound system with the LCD projetor.
8:00 - 9:00 Class in the living room
Samples from WESTS WING Season 2 Episode 2: Bartlett's 3rd State of the Union
Kimberly shares about what’s come up in the individual discussions.
Group Discusses their work so far
Plan for Sunday afternoon
Lesson 4: SCRIPT WRITING WORKSHOP
3-4:30 Flash writing: Scenes
Make 10 cards with Characters on them
Make 5 cards with Place and Problem
Make 5 cards with Theme
Place in piles, Select, Write
Share in 2’s
4:30-5:45 Reading drafts together in 3 groups. Have teams pick the best minute to read aloud to the rest.
5:45-6 What have we learned? Where do we go from here?
Fill in the Play Idea Worksheet
Using the lists of values you hold, issues that are important to you, your lifes influential experiences, brainstorm ideas for plays.
2:40-3:30 Lecture about Characters
Brainstorm idiosyncrasies, personality traits.
1. The audience will learn about your character by what he says/does, and what he doesn't say or do.
2. Also by what others in the play say about him or how they treat him.
3. Your audience can only know as much about the characters as YOU know about them. If you don't know them all WELL, they will be cardboard, and boring.
4. Characters are not ALL GOOD or ALL BAD. Everyone is a mix of strengths and weaknesses. Know what these are. Include them in your play.
5. Your protagonis should be likeable (or no one will care what happens to him)
Watch Sample: WEST WING, Scene with Pres Bartlett entering the hallway before his speech. Stops to tie shoe and stops to pray. Scene with Josh, Donna, Joey Lucas and Interpretter about the polling. What do you learn about these characters. What is unique?
Watch Sample: A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS take note of what you learn about the Kids, Aunt Josephine and Captain Sham? What makes them interesting and unique?
3:30-4:00 Handout: Instant Character Analysis
Choose your protagonist in one of your play ideas and let’s go through the list. FAST.
4:00-4:30 Lecture on Dialogue with samples (Read: "Single" and "Body Schisms")
4.30pm - 6.30pm Personal writing time and appointments with K!M about your ideas.
6.45pm-7.30pm Dinner time at the apartment.
7:30 - 8:00 Kimberly proves her lack of techinical skills by trying to use the family sound system with the LCD projetor.
8:00 - 9:00 Class in the living room
Samples from WESTS WING Season 2 Episode 2: Bartlett's 3rd State of the Union
Kimberly shares about what’s come up in the individual discussions.
Group Discusses their work so far
Plan for Sunday afternoon
Lesson 4: SCRIPT WRITING WORKSHOP
3-4:30 Flash writing: Scenes
Make 10 cards with Characters on them
Make 5 cards with Place and Problem
Make 5 cards with Theme
Place in piles, Select, Write
Share in 2’s
4:30-5:45 Reading drafts together in 3 groups. Have teams pick the best minute to read aloud to the rest.
5:45-6 What have we learned? Where do we go from here?
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