Our last group meeting was, as usual, a good source of feedback and an interesting sampler of the work everyone has been doing. To our last group meeting, Katie brought a continuation of her short story, Julia brought more short story material, Allen brought the start of a new short story, and I brought some more pages of my script. Personally, I felt the "movies of the mind" concept was effective in providing raw feedback, pure mental data that hasn't already passed through the filter of interpretation. I felt it was informative to see what was going on in everyone's heads as they read my piece - the "movies" technique was especially interesting as applied to an actual movie. Everyone's work seems to be moving along and I can't wait to see what's next.
-Trevor
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
My bad on late post
Alright, so our fifth meeting was a very successful one. All four of us had pieces that we were excited to share and recieve feedback on. Trevor introduced the beginning of his script addition to his screenplay project; Julia added teo pages to her short story; Katy had the beginning of "Gaia," her short story inspired by the fantasy works she is reading; and I presented the beginning of my story inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. We found the Question based feedback method the most effective and took turns questioning our own pieces and answering eachothers. I asked whether or not the rhyming worked for my piece and recieved mixed yet helpful feedback. Thank you by the way.
We spent alot of time talking about Trevor's script and how it was interesting to see the third person character of the storyline have a voice and personality that a script reveals. We talked about the direction Julia's piece was going to take and how the memories or flasbacks add to the drama and effect of her piece. Both mine and Katy's pieces were just beginnings and generated suspense as to what our next drafts would be. Katy's story followed a botanist on her way to a convention and my story showed an individual ravaged by the loss of a loved one. Leaving meeting five I remember we were all excited to see the next step in our pieces on meeting six.
Parliament of Owls, hoot hoot!
We spent alot of time talking about Trevor's script and how it was interesting to see the third person character of the storyline have a voice and personality that a script reveals. We talked about the direction Julia's piece was going to take and how the memories or flasbacks add to the drama and effect of her piece. Both mine and Katy's pieces were just beginnings and generated suspense as to what our next drafts would be. Katy's story followed a botanist on her way to a convention and my story showed an individual ravaged by the loss of a loved one. Leaving meeting five I remember we were all excited to see the next step in our pieces on meeting six.
Parliament of Owls, hoot hoot!
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