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Mon Jan 25<\/strong>
\nIntroductions, Syllabus, Students
\nKinds of writing\/Tones of writing<\/p>\n

Assignment 1<\/em>: self portrait 250 words<\/p>\n

Wed Jan 27
\n<\/strong>DUE<\/em>: Assignment 1 BRING PRINT OUT
\nRandom reading of Assignment 1 (3 students)
\nGood\/Bad writing (hand-outs)<\/p>\n

Assignment 2<\/em>: write every day for 10 days on beans or electrons – make a contract with yourself
\nReading: <\/em>Start Playing Her Story<\/p>\n

Mon Feb 1
\n<\/strong>Experimental work, <\/strong>poetics, \u00e9pater la bourgeoisie
\n<\/strong>Blast Theory<\/a>
\n<\/strong>You the City by Fiona Templeton – in class reading & acting out and discussion<\/p>\n

READING:<\/em> The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin by William S. Burroughs<\/a><\/p>\n

Wed Feb 3
\n<\/strong>Discuss “You the City“<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Generating Ideas – germs of ideas, developing ideas, acting out ideas, planning, background writing, snippets
\nWriting Exercises – idea dating, brainstorm<\/p>\n

Assignment 3: <\/em>script concept
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Mon Feb 8<\/strong>
\nDUE:<\/em> Assignment 2
\nRandom readings from Assignment 2 (groups)
\nDiscuss Her Story – interactive narrative, tone, unreliable narrator
\nDiscuss: The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin by William S. Burroughs<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Conscious and unconscious
\nWriting exercise<\/p>\n

Wed Feb 10<\/strong>
\nDiscuss Criticism\/Critiquing
\nGroup Discussions – initial script concepts
\nWriting Exercise – Pick a character (from your project) and create an Unreliable Narrator<\/a><\/p>\n

Mon Feb 15<\/strong>
\nWATCH: Philomena<\/p>\n

Wed Feb 17<\/strong>
\nDiscuss Philomena –
\nAndrew Stanton: Ted Talk \u201cThe clues to a great story<\/a>\u201c
\nShekhar Kapur: Ted Talk \u201cWe are the stories we tell ourselves<\/a>\u201c
\nReprise Criticism\/Critiquing<\/a><\/p>\n

Mon Feb 22<\/strong>
\nDUE:<\/em> Assignment 3
\nPresent Script Concepts – peer groups<\/p>\n

Assignment 4: treatment
\nReading:<\/em>\u00a0 Barthes<\/p>\n

Wed Feb 24<\/strong>
\nDiscussion of Barthes\/Creation of Meaning – reference, connotation,signifying strings
\nAd Analysis using Barthes’ concepts<\/p>\n

Reading\/Viewing<\/em>:
\nRead: Brecht’s ‘Epic Theater’ and \u2018Verfremdungseffekt\u2019
\n<\/a>View: Introduction to Brechtian Theater
\n<\/a>Read: A Preliminary Poetics for Interactive Drama and Games<\/a>, Michael <\/a>Mateas<\/a><\/p>\n

Mon Feb 29
\n<\/strong>Role of structure?
\nArtistotelian and Brechtian notions
\nWriting Exercise – bring cards – organize project onto cards<\/p>\n

Wed Mar 2
\n<\/strong>What is structure?<\/a><\/p>\n