Due Class 2-3-2012
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 03:35PM Before class next week, please answer the following questionnaire (click on the link):
Assignment #1
Purpose: Taking notes and reworking them into an essay.
Work: Take your notes and incorporate them into a second draft of your personal essay. Make sure that your character's viewpoint has changed over the course of the essay and is slightly different at the end.
Due: A copy of Draft #2
Assignment #2
Purpose: Sharpen dialgoue skills and find the story in material
Work:
1. Eavesdrop on a conversation between two people that you do not know
2. Take notes of their dialogue, unqiue vocabulary and mannerisms
3. Type overhead dialogue into script format (use either double space left alinged or screenplay writing software)
4. Rewrite the dialogue into a scene with a set-up, rising action, conflict and resolution.
5. Add a Scene Heading: INT. or EXT. (interior or exterior) PLACE - TIME
6. Under the scene heading, add a description of the two characters withn their names in capitols.
Here's an example from When Harry Met Sally:
EXT. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - DAY
A couple in a clinch.
The young man involved is named HARRY BURNS. He's 26 years old, just graduated from law school. Wearing jeans and a sweatshirt.
He's kissing a young woman named AMANDA. She has long straight hair that she irons. She's about 20. The embrace is fairly melodramatic. They pull back to look at one another.
Amanda: I love you.
Harry: I love you.
[and so it continues]
7. You can write action sentences in between the dialogue. Conclude the scene with either dialoguue or description.
8. Write 1-5 pages (double-spaced).
DUE: One copy of the EAVESDROP TRANSCRIPT and and two copies of the REWRITTEN SCENE to class. You will be reading the REWRITTEN SCENE outloud with a partner.
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