Writing Assignment — choose Fiction or NonFiction exercise as instructed (due next class or as specified in syllabus):
Writing-Assignment-4: Loglines & Step Outlines// DUE NEXT WEEK
Textbook (reading assignments on syllabus):
153.Fiction Step Outline Pointers
SCRIPTWRITING by Sam Sloves (pdf)
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.)
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 Films153.Log Lines
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
The Seven Basic Plots – Summary
Matt and Trey at NYU