Monday, January 16, 2012

Class Exercise

Step 1
Story1: Character driven story, eg Mr Bean

A man who have special power uses his powers wisely until a day he accidentally uses it to a bad use.

Story2: Story driven by a location.
Few girls went to an unknown place and got to another dimension world with no way out.

Story3: Story driven by an item.
A rich young woman who cant live without her wedding ring or she will turn old and wrinkled

Story4: Story driven by a situation.
Randy failed his examinations all the time until one day, he changed and got good results.

Story5: Story driven by Character's motive(s) or conflict with another Character.
Tiara and Mandy are best friends until a time when they fall for the same guy, things change.

Stories 6 to 10: Combination of above points for your stories.



Step 2:
Story 11: Drama
A nerdy girl who realises that she is stuck in a love triangle figuring out how to escape from that reality.

Story 12: Documentary
Royston discovers a new technology greater than apple products and sells his product for only $1

Story 13: News / Current Affairs
Young teenagers are now brave and misbehave in public.

Story 14: Comedy
A silly man trying to find his phone and trace back his path and realises he is holding to it all day.

Story 15: Horror
A woman stole an antique from an abandon house and was haunted by a spirit

Story 16: Action
A guy who have the skills of parkour, runs and flips all the way to a shopping mall to get to the toilet.

Story 17: Mystery / Thriller / Crime
"A dead body was found and is suspected one of the officer is the victim

Story 18: Teenage Drama
"Emilia is together with her boyfriend and brought him to her place. But her parents disapproved them from being with one another.

Story 19: Romance
A man falls in love with his ex girlfriend. He asked his friend,girl, for help but eventually he fell in love with her instead.

Story 20: Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Aliens and creatures are invading the world with their big spaceships attacking

Story 21: Children


Story 22: Adventure / Swashbucklers


Story 23 - 25: Combination of any genre from above.


Step 3:
Story 11: Drama
Take me home tonight

Story 12: Documentary
I AM (micheal jackson)

Story 13: News / Current Affairs


Story 14: Comedy
The hangover

Story 15: Horror
Exorcism of Emily rose

Story 16: Action
Thor

Story 17: Mystery / Thriller / Crime
Scream 4

Story 18: Teenage Drama

Story 19: Romance
Romeo And Juliet

Story 20: Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Harry Potter

Story 21: Children
Alvin And the Chipmunks

Story 22: Adventure / Swashbucklers
Immortals

Thursday, January 5, 2012

One sentence pitch

Video One
A few small blue birds is teasing a different big blue bird. They didnt want to leave a space for the big blue bird. they wanted to get rid of it and loses they own feather and got teased back.

Video Two
about a snow man falling in love with a mermaid and wanting to escape his snow globe by trying everything he could but couldnt get a chance to get near her.

Video 3
The story is about a guy who have to attend to a concert with his girlfriend but he was late and have to gone through obstacles to get there himself

Video 4
a group of flamingos trying to stop a playful flamingo from playing his yo yo toy.

Video 5
2 dinosaurs and a pig challenging fart with one another.

What makes a good story

- Strong characters
- Character's motive
- Start the story with a conflict
- Relationship with items or people
- Story revolves around him
- A turning point
- 3 act structure
- need to have climax/conflict