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Week 1 Tues Jan 30<\/strong> At Land<\/a> by Maya Deren Assignment 1: self portrait 250 words Reading: <\/em>Start Playing Her Story<\/p>\n Week 2 Tues Feb 6 Discuss At Land Generating Ideas – germs of ideas, developing ideas, acting out ideas, planning, background writing, snippets DUE:<\/em> Assignment 1 Week 3 Tues Feb 13<\/strong> Continue Composition Exercise Two<\/p>\n While you wait:<\/p>\n Discuss Her Story – interactive narrative, tone, unreliable narrator (?) Discuss\u00a0\u00a0Criticism\/Critiquing DUE:<\/em> Assignment 2 Roland Barthes,<\/strong>\u00a0S\/Z I will provide extract, + FYI\u00a0Project Gutenberg Sarrasine pdf<\/a><\/p>\n Week 4 Tues Feb 20<\/strong><\/p>\n DUE: Assignment 3<\/em> Discussion of Barthes\/Creation of Meaning – reference, connotation,signifying strings Her Story?<\/p>\n Read:<\/em> A Preliminary Poetics for Interactive Drama and Games<\/a>, Michael <\/a>Mateas Additional Reading:<\/p>\n Rethinking Agency and Immersion: videogames as a means of consciousness-raising<\/a>, Gonzalo Frasca<\/p>\n DUE: Assignment 3 Week 5 Tues Feb 27<\/strong><\/p>\n What is structure?<\/a><\/p>\n Artistotelian and Brechtian notions Week 6 Tues March 6 DUE<\/em>: Assignment 4: treatment Structural Analysis of Sita Peer Group presentation of Treatments<\/p>\n DUE: Assignment 4: treatment<\/strong> Week 7: Tues Mar 13<\/strong><\/p>\n WATCH: Philomena View: Shape of Stories<\/a> – <\/em>Kurt Vonnegut BRING CARDS<\/p>\n RECESS<\/p>\n Week 8 Tues Mar 27<\/strong> Not I<\/a> – Samuel Becket<\/strong><\/p>\n Top Dog Under Dog Suzan Lori Parks<\/p>\n Week 9 Tues April 3 Week 10 Tues\u00a0 Apr 10
\nIntroductions, Syllabus, Students
\nKinds of writing\/Tones of writing<\/p>\n
\nAt Land script sent by email, for next time think how it relates to the film you saw<\/p>\n
\nAssignment 2<\/em>: write every day for 10 days on beans or electrons – make a contract with yourself<\/p>\n\n
\n<\/strong>Experimental work, <\/strong>poetics, \u00e9pater la bourgeoisie<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Blast Theory<\/a>
\n<\/strong>You the City<\/a> by Fiona Templeton<\/p>\n\n
\nWriting Exercises – idea dating, brainstorm<\/p>\n
\nAssignment 3: <\/em>script concept
\n<\/em>READING:<\/em> The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin by William S. Burroughs<\/a><\/p>\n
\nDUE:<\/em> Assignment 2
\nRandom readings from Assignment 2 (groups)<\/p>\n\n
\n<\/strong>Conscious and unconscious<\/p>\n
\nGroup Discussions – initial script concepts
\nWriting Exercise – Pick a character (from your project) and create an Unreliable Narrator<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAssignment 3: <\/em>script concept continue
\nReading\/Viewing<\/em>:<\/p>\n
\nPresent Script Concepts – peer groups<\/p>\n
\nAd Analysis using Barthes’ concepts<\/p>\n
\nRead: <\/a>Brecht’s ‘Epic Theater’ and \u2018Verfremdungseffekt\u2019
\n<\/a>View: <\/a>Introduction to Brechtian Theater<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAssignment 4: treatment or plan<\/em><\/p>\n\n
\nWriting Exercise – TBA<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>WATCH: Sita Sings the Blues<\/p>\n
\nmeaning generated by structure
\nmeaning generated by semantic reference\/connotation<\/p>\n
\nAssignment 5<\/em>: First Draft<\/p>\n
\nDiscuss Philomena –
\nAndrew Stanton: Ted Talk \u201cThe clues to a great story”<\/a>
\nShekhar Kapur: Ted Talk \u201cWe are the stories we tell ourselves”<\/a><\/p>\n
\nRead: Syd Fields<\/em> The Paradigm Worksheet
\n<\/a>Optional<\/em>: Under Story Structures Heading<\/a> View the McKee videos and\/or Interactive Story Structures <\/a>by Ira Nayman<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Discussion of Dialog, sub text<\/p>\n\n
\n<\/strong>Inspirational Material – prepare presentation – powerpoint or similar presentation – 15 mins – practice it<\/p>\n\n
\n<\/strong>DUE<\/em>: Assignment 5: First Draft
\n11-12:30 Read\/Present First Draft – peer groups\u00a0 (30 mins per person)<\/p>\n\n