Thursday, 8 March 2012

Story for Assignment

“A nerdy bird [Jack] and his friend [Bob] ran across a girl in trouble being chased by an evil robot [Alex], now the evil robot want to get rid of all of them.”

               One day, Jack and Bob is taking their time sitting in the tree. As usual, Jack is busy reading his book, while Bob is fooling around. Suddenly, they saw a girl running to them.
“I’m being chased by a walking piece of metal guys! Please help me!”
               Before they are able to answer anything, she left them while running. Moments later, the robot showed up to them, his form is big, walking with a wheel in his feet, and with a big hand. Without saying anything, he attacked them. Jack and Bob run as fast as possible.
“Hey, over here!”
               The girl hide them in the bush. The robot can’t find them, and went back angrily.
“So, why exactly he is looking for you ? “ asked Jack.
“Well.. my name is Jill ! Nice to meet you.”
“I wasn’t asking for your name in the first place, Jill ! “
“I am Bob, and that’s Jack, nice to meet you!” said Bob.
               Jack let out a sigh, and intends to leave them.
“Wait ! You’ve got to help me, before things get worst !” said Jill.
“So, what’s your problem?” asked Jack.
               Jill began explaining the problem.  She told them that when she was walking around, she plucked out a mushroom , that later tends to be the robot’s antennae. So now the robot is awake and gone berserk.
“Why don’t you just give it back to the robot?” ask Jack.
“Well.. something happened, I dropped the antennae somewhere on the way.”
“Oh my, you are causing us a lot of trouble! Okay anyway, let’s return to my place first. We need some stuff before we proceed.”
               They arrived at a nearby treehouse, where Jack lived. He used his book to make a metal detector to detect the antennae quickly.
“Let the journey begin!!” Jill yelled.
“Yeaaaaaaaaaaaah!” answer Bob, but Jack didn’t say anything, rather than giving a sour face.
               First, they start searching in the swamp.
“Let’s get this done and over with. I don’t like this kind of place.” Jack grumbles.
.Suddenly, the detector give a significant response. Beep,beep,beep. When they look at the signal direction, it turns out to be the Robot!
“ALEXXXX—“ the robot sound.
“Run ! Run ! Run ! I will be the decoy! ” Bob yelled.
Bob get tumbled down and get a flying uppercut from the robot.  But that means nothing for him. Bob can endures a large amount of damage before he faint.
               After they ran far enough, the robot disappeared again, and they continue their journey. The second place, is the jungle. It said that the jungle divided into two parts, the Tiger and the Lion lead two opposing faction.
“I wonder why you ever walked into this place” said Jack.
“Well, I’m just bored !” answer Jill.
               Jack let down a sigh. The metal detector give a response. It looks like that the antennae is moved by someone. They follow the trail deep into the jungle. Found out that the antennae is in the possession of King Tiger. This will be hard because King Tiger is hard to persuade.
“Well, what do you seek, mortals?!”
               

Thursday, 16 February 2012

Designing the visual world

characters
situations
locations
scenarios
atmospheres
colours
costumes hair
props
launguage
music

Some tips
Who are you writing for?
for the teacher

characters : Alien vs Predator
situations : Avatar
locations : Armageddon
scenarios : Lord of The Ring
atmospheres : Saw
colours : Black and White
costumes hair :
props :
language : German
music : Techno


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assignment

Thursday, 5 January 2012

What's Your Story

What makes a good story?
In my opinion :

a. interesting character.

b. good motive.

c. 3 act structure.

d. good progressing throughout the story.

e. have certain mood.

The writer must be able to deliver the mood to the reader so they can feel that they are inside the story.
And the story progress in the right direction so that the reader won't be bored or feel that the story is a bit too rushed. A good story will be able to tell all the important part that the reader need to know. Or be able to make a mystery that still be thinkable by the readers.

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What makes a GOOD story?

- character(s)
> motive
> conflict (drama)
> quest
> turning point
> climax
> resolution

What's your story?

> Genres
> Brainstorm
> 1 Sentence Pitch
> 3 Act Structure

Where do I look for stories
- news
- mag
- our experiences
- other people experiences
- research

Focus

> What is your story about

How do i get my story going?
- premise
- what if
- why not?
- character > something not common (conflict)
- art of telling a story

EXAMPLE

Wall-e
premise - earth will always be our home if there is hope and respect for nature

what if a robot in the future saves a plant so that humans can come back to earth from space?

why not ? a robot as key character / hero