A test early in the morning at 8am is definitely a no no for me. Not the exact Good Morning! i expected but oh well! Wasn’t so fantastic but i guess i’ll just fail.
Learned about re-writing.. Its all about accepting negative comments and revising your drafts to a perfect one. Well.. my story is pretty simple considering its a “able to expect whats happening next” one. I will try to do something about it!!!
Didn’t do much in class today.
We talked about experience and indeed every single one is unique and special on its own. Each of us have a original story of our own and its our background and experiences. Did an exercise where we had to come up with a true and false story and had to guess which is true. (check mine out at the True or False page) mine is quite convincing i guess (i hope) Then it showed me that we all have different experience and many more different reactions to it. This could turn out to be a pretty decent story and original.
Who says all ideas are not original.
This week.. we had to do a part call “Show but not tell” It is where we try to convey a message through our actions. We then did a few demos of our own and i got paired up with Sze Hui. She was suppose to be a pregnant lady trying to tell me that she was pregnant but don’t know how to do so. We pulled it off quite superbly and i guess it was not bad! =P This teaches us that having a good script that would let the audience visualize how the scene would be like and etc. Thus, it would be easier to transmit the message we are trying to bring across.
We watched “Sunat” and “The secret heaven”. and i got to say. The lead boy in Sunat really showed the emotions perfectly and was super funny!! =P
time really flies! We had cover many stuff and now we are at characters and creating situations and conflicts! Characters are definitely the spine and nerve of the story as what Mr Leslie said; if there is no characters, there will be no stories, no conflicts, no nothing. A good story needs to be backed by a strong character which will help sustain the main plot.
planning your writing and creating appropriate conflicts is important! So.. i have too start planning now! Assignment 1 is out already! got to plan!
second lesson so far! i’m still trying to adjust my really bad holiday mood to school mode but its hard! BUT BUT BUT! i’ll make it! =) lesson on tues was on story-telling. Dialouges are definitely important in stories as conversations can tell a reader how is the character is like to a certain extend. To me, dialodues form the core parts of th story and distinct examples from be like quotes from Shakespere with his “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou romeo?” or just simply “” This quotes often reminds us of th story behind it and therefore, an important part to a story!
The most memorable episode in class certainly is to be edwin and ruiting reading off my script. WELL! sorry edwin! hahah.. had to embarrass him in front of the class with an intriguing script that required him to get out of his little comfort zone.. “Come on, baby” definitely is not the words that would flow from edwin’s lips BUT, kudos to him pulling it off! Finished of the class with 2 films; “ahma” and “shhh” i felt that the short film on ahma was to use the tension and emotion of the film to pull it through as it does not have much dialouge to sustain it. Whereas “shhh” used an explosive approach the issue of baby’s crying.. Meanings of the stories are definitely found behind the humour and tension and i personally liked the second film more! =D now to people-watch! =))
walking in lazily into a class late doesn’t really make a very good first impression. Plus! story-telling DEFINITELY doesn’t sound like the best subject. Then, the teacher I saw having his nose pierced and stylish spectacle is not exactly the kind of person i would expect teaching such a “captivating” subject let alone the fact that he worked in MTV before. That pretty sums up the first impressions i had of Mr Leslie.. awesome? totally.
Writing stories is definitely not my forte but not saying that i will not try.. but.. oh well! you get what i mean. I really believe that having a good opening to a story can impact the kind of attitude or reaction to the story. Like many people other than me, we look for good openers to captivate us, entice us to read on and more. To keep us coming back for more. THAT is really important to me.
Learned about writing good stuff on paper too. well.. I think that the part of getting your ideas to flow onto the paper and having it to work may prove to be a tricky point for me. Ideas may be aplenty but to get them altogether for a fantastic story is seriously nerve-wrecking! “does it flow?! does these make sense?! will my readers understand my story?!” These are questions i will ask myself when i start writing and i will sometimes just blank out because of the amount of pressure i place on myself. I hope i’ll be able to express myself better now learning how to be a good storyteller and move with the flow!
storytelling is definitely working for me now! thinking that it would be a boring class didn’t exactly help much but oh well! I hope this would be where i’m able to express and articulate myself in the best way possible.. so give me your best support ya?! feel free to comment!
