3/31-4/4 – Innocente and beginning script

Monday 3/31/14

Aim: Watching Innocente for critical understanding

Daily Spark: How would the story of your year so far be different as told by you versus as told by a parent or sibling of yours (telling the story of your year?

 

Here are some big questions/big ideas to think about as we watch:

1. What is the subject of this film? Can you determine the filmmakers’ perspective on this subject? What evidence can you find in the film to support your view?
2. How does this film help you analyze and interpret points of view about issues that concern people?
3. Does the filmmakers’ perspective foster respect for diversity and an inclusive society? If so, how?
4. Whose story is told in this documentary? Whose story is not told? How does this story, and the way it is told, help you understand your own community/life?
5. What film techniques do the filmmakers use to convey the identity of the people in this film?
6. What insights does this documentary offer about the ideals of good citizenship in the community depicted in this film?
7. How does the film deal with issues of freedom, equality, human dignity, and individual and collective rights and
   responsibilities?
8. How does this film help you understand a community’s values and its attitudes towards an issue at a particular time?
9. Which aspects of a people’s culture does this film focus on? Why do you think the filmmakers focused on those aspects?
10. How do the images, themes and message of this film help you understand the filmmakers’ attitude towards the subject?
11. What do you think might have been the intended audience’s attitude towards the documentary subject?
12. What global issues are addressed in this film? What is the filmmaker’s point of view on the opportunities and challenges
    of those issues?

As we watch:

Take notes on, or jot down connections to, two of the thematic domains from the Big Questions/Ideas/Themes.  Find proof
from the film that supports your connections.

 

Wednesday 4/2/14

Sarah

 

Friday 4/4/14

Aim: Deciding on a story to tell

Daily Spark: Describe your best friend and his/her bedroom as if you are describing them to a police sketch artist who has to draw each of them based on your description.

 

A few things:

1. Many of you wrote your scenes into the 7 turning points instead of making the scene ONE of the 7 turning points. If this is you – you must rewrite today (later)
2. First you will decide on a script to write. We will start with an exercise in the packet you have in front of you (good script, bad script
   1. At home,  click here and scroll to page 6
3. Which of your two stories have more elements of a “good film” and less elements of a “bad film”
4. At this point, if your 7 TPs are one scene, you should work to rewrite it, if it is not, move on to #5
5. When you select which of your two outlines you want to work with, move on to “casting your characters” – read through and answer the character questionnaire for the characters in your screenplay
6. Please finish Character questionnaire for your main character by Tuesday
7. Share out