Story Elements

Directions

-Remember to have a lesson is taught and learned and the plot and characters do not remind you of any movie you have ever watched

For your short film's theme or message, consider using one of the school's values from E (excellence), T (truth), or D (diversity).

Copy the following titles and lists below and paste into a Google Doc (title the Google Doc CA3 Superhero Film by First Name, First Name, & First Name. Then answer each according to your story in As a group, now that you have a narrative arc, you will need to create your characters, conflict, and plot/plants/payoffs. Have the first person in your group in a post to Schoology, create the Characters, second person conflict, and thir person plot/plants/payoff.

Character

Review the content about Character

  1. Explain your main Character Arc (& the name of the actor):
  2. How you will use Peeling the Onion:
  3. Establishing Universal Empathy (use two out of the five ways to show empathy for your main character:)
  4. Protagonist: (round or flat, dynamic or static...& the name of the actor)
  5. Antagonist: (round or flat, dynamic or static...& the name of the actor)
  6. Minor character: (round or flat, dynamic or static...& the name of the actor) [You may not have a "normal" minor character and cannot be a typical student]:
  7. Additional Minor character #2: (round or flat, dynamic or static...& the name of the actor) [You may not have a "normal" minor character and cannot be a typical student]:

Conflict

Review the content about Conflict and write the following details:

  1. Tension (who/what will be involved? explain)
  2. Character Lock (change internally or externally? explain)
  3. Forced Action (explain)
  4. High & Low Stakes (explain)

Plot, Plants, & Payoffs

Review the content about Plot and write the following:

    1. Explain the catalyst of your film
    2. What will be the biggest conflict?
    3. Which school value above would you consider as part of the school's value.

Review the content about Plants & Payoffs and write the following:

  1. What information will you plant throughout the film that the viewer will have to figure out by the end?
  2. What will be the film's throughline?

Take a screenshot of the first page and have each group member email it to their Wordpress and include the the public Google Doc link. Then complete your group's narrative arc in the same Google Doc and you are finished with this assignment.

Directions

Like I said in class and by email, I commented on everyone's film ideas that were on the spreadsheet by the due date. I indicated here if it was approved or not and in which direction you should be working with your film. If your idea was not approved and it says No, do an MV that means you will create a music-based MV with the popular song of your choice. Remember, you can ask someone else to sing it and play instruments for it and edit in GarageBand. Your plot for your MV would be related to the song lyrics. For the activity below, complete it according to your idea on what I indicated on here. If you have never given me your idea yet, then at this point you just need to think of one and complete this activity and try to get my approval later.