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What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
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Hi there. My name is Dorothy and i'm a girl. 1st July is the day I saw the first sign of life throughout all these years. I'm just another somebody. I love chocolates and cookies, heart simplicity and have a passion for soft colours. I like to sing, except for the fact that my voice sounds suck-ish. I do web-designs, graphics and etc during my leisure. I'm learning two things i've considered most important in my life: To love, and not to hate.
So love you if you love me(:
I'm in love with my awesome friends. I ain't perfect but I'm unique, so live with it.

Lastly, a tag is greatly appreciated. Ma vie, mon amour.
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date: Thursday, 16 February 2012
time: 21:46


Design the visual world through

characters

situation

location/sets

scenarios

atmosphere

colours

costumes/hair/makeup

props

language

Music and sound effects
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Props
= Lord of the Rings

Language
=English

Some tips:
Who are you writing for?

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Hero - Jack >>Nerd

Name: Jack
Type: 5 tailed Unicorn wolf.
Age: 25 years old
Item: Always attached to a book wherever he goes.
Height: 157cm
Lives in: Lorbeira Fore Town
Behavior: Soft, gentle, smart, loving, studious
Loves: Jill


Heroine - Jill >>Ms Sunshine

Name: Jill
Type: Pixie Bee-Bat
Age: 19 years old
Item: Carries potions and poison dusts buried deep in her fuzzy fur.
Height: 50 cm
Lives in: Torres Woods, Sing Stems
Behavior: Speedy, alert, tricky, active
Loves: Tricks and spells


Villain - Alex >>Male

Name: Alex
Type: Winged Kangaroo Rabbit-Dog
Age: 45 years old
Item: Rabbies his toy rabbit.
Height: 140 cm
Lives in: Volbart Dawn City
Behavior: rough, fierce, acting cute when caught
Loves: Capturing little wild pixies to extract their powers and use them as experiments.


Comic Relief - Bob >>Male

Name: Bob
Type: One-Eyed Bird
Age: 45 years old
Item: The cave walls.
Height: 50 cm
Lives in: Volbart Dawn City
Behavior: clumsy, dense, stupid, always foils Alex's plan and make him in trouble.
Loves: Eat dead pixies


Story:

Jack is at his most vulnerable moment working with a book when there was some rustling sound coming from behind the shelves. Jack went to check it out. He saw a light sparkle floating round a book trying to lift it up but the book was too thick and heavy. Jack took the book from the shelves and handed it to the sparkle. In a flash, it burst into a bright flying creature. She thanked him and they went back to his table to read.

They introduced each other and soon became fast friends. Jack asked why she was into spells and potion making. Jill stared silently before looking down and explain her story. She came from the Sing Stems in Torres Woods, to find 1st class spells in this town because its well known for its range of experiences. the elders have exposed their spells into books before they passed on. Jack listened hard.

Jill came to a topic where she talked about a villain named Alex whom loves to capture pixies and extract their powers and turn the pixies into dried plant to feed his companion, Bob. The powers he got will turn the sun away, summon dark clouds to create a forever darkness world round the globe. Jack leaned back as Jill ended her story, thinking.

Jack request to join her in defeating Alex and they both got to work, digging every book from the spell and torment section. Nothing fits what will conquer Alex. Then Jack thought of an ancient book on the top shelf in lying in the head quarters and went to get it. They chose their spell which came to a disappointment as a lower part of the page was torn away but the ingredients were still written clearly.

Within a month, the potion to defeat Alex was created. They have no idea what it does. The description in the book only mentioned "Wish-Your-Heart-Out Potion. Your problems will be solved if only you" due to the torn page. They packed their things needed for the journey and set off to Volbart City.

Meanwhile at the chambers of Volbart Ray Mansion in Alex's laboratory flew Bob, in a rush to share with Alex about his findings. "MASTER" he called. Alex was too busy enjoying extracting a screaming pixie on the verge of death, turned around in disgust. Bob found what he was looking for, the Wish-Your-Heart-Out Potion page which he tore away from the library at the nearby town. Alex happily lightened up and took the paper and opened it. He looked up and grabbed Bob by the neck and laugh. He roared at Bob as to why he tore off the description only which was of no use to him. Alex then let loose and told him he need more poison for his experiment at the same time tossing the dead fairy at Bob and he gobbled it up.

Jack and Jill reached the City. It looked all dark and gloomy. The took the shelter and started looking to the direction. Jill's glow was so bright and golden which caught Bob eye. He swooped over, grabbed Jill and flew off. Jack shouted and chased after. Bob flew over the gates into the mansion through a broken window. Jack stopped in his tracks. Examined the mansion before entering. To his surprise the gate was unlocked and a key was still in the keyhole. It has to be some forgetful creature. Jack held on tight to the potion and went in to search for Jill.

In the chambers. The glow which Bob brought back was disturbing Alex's eye but when he took a closer look, it was a pixie of a rare kind. Alex was so excited he tosses 10 pixies at Bob and he started munching on them. Jill screamed. Jack heard Jill's screams and ran towards her voice. The voice lead him to the basement and into caves and then a dungeon chambers with weird statues. He burst in to action when we saw Jill tied firmly to a wheel cart as Alex was about to cut of her wings. He uncapped the potion and attempted to throw it on Alex. Jack tripped on an uneven ground and the potion accidentally flew up and dropped on his face. The potion suddenly disappeared on his face. Alex thought of his weird victory ignored a weak fellow as him and set to work. Jill was struggling, calling for Jack before Alex cut off her right wing and working on the left one.

Jack awoke to her screams. He was dizzy and he noticed a crumpled paper under the table. It was tore off and judging by its color, it was off the ancient library book. Jack grabbed it and started reading its description. He learnt that after the potion was created, it will be absorbed into the second thing it touched to give it the will to wish your problems away. The potion first touched the bottle then onto Jack's face, so the power is within him! He stood up and and a spell came to his mind.

He sang it out and everything was on pause. Jack remembered Jill told him that if she had a wish, she would turn Alex into a bright cloud which is to be lost in the skies of light forever. That's just great! Jack wished and Alex rise up into the gloomy clouds in the sky and "POOF" he became a brilliant white cloud! The whole gloomy sky lighted up and soon sun rays shone. Jack took Jill out to the gardens where she wept off for her lost wings. Jack hugged her with tears as well. The last few drops of potion dripped down to Jill back and suddenly, her wings came back. The potion restored her wings. Now it was bigger, stronger and golden. She was so happy that she grabbed Jack and they both swam in the skies back towards Sing Stems in Torres Woods.

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date: Thursday, 19 January 2012
time: 21:00


folk ttales genre

use elements

aesop stories


Excercise 1

1 Sentence Pitch
Meo took up a task to suppress an earthquake monster that escapes from the ground. It reacts to the bad airs and wastes from the surface and came to rid of them.


Synopsis - story
Meo is a freelance artist that travels from town to town expressing her arts on concretes and trees. She came upon a town full of smokes and dehydrating trees and plants. People are always at work there. Suddenly an earthquake reacted and the grounds started cracking up, a huge rough stone-like monster shot up into the skies and started roaring.

Meo was pushed around in the crowd who were escaping from the scene. She then decided she have to stop it when she noticed her new found powers in her talent.

3 act

Setup - start
Confrontation - conflict
Resolution - solve


Character Bio
Meo is a hybrid, half pixie half clown, is a freelance artist. She loved expressing art around her as she liked the attention she gets. It makes her very happy. She is always smiling and finding ways to solve problems she faced. She is always in a good mood and enjoys peace. When everything is at peace, she gets motivated as fresh ideas entered her mind.


Storyline

One sunny day under the clouds, Meo was strolled into a new town. She was dragging her paintbrush on the ground all the way from the previous town, giving the ground a refreshing colour. She entered deeper into town where everyone was hard at work. No one was having any fun, even the kids were piling up scrapped metals that were blocking the way.

She noticed the town full of smokes and has dehydrating trees and plants. Meo smiled and held up her paint brush and brushed it on the rocks. Out splashed some fresh paint. Everyone turned. Some noticed out of curiosity and irritation. Meo started expressing her arts on concretes and trees, houses and walls. She danced and danced around everyone. Until the last step of her danced, she stopped to give a gentle bow.

She looked up slightly and to her disappointment, everyone got back to work. Some kids grumbled at her works and took out some metal and rocks and started scrubbing on her paintings. She smiled and carried on her way.

She noticed a crowd along the way looking down at some mine from the edge of a hill. She went to join in only that she realised that she was actually watching life destruction of plain green fields. The men were planting huge bombs into pit holes, bombing places to make new buildings.

She was speechless and stood rooted to the ground in horror. Just as she witnessed another bomb planting, the ground shook. The ground tremble so hard that everything started to shake and fall apart. A deep crack spread out from the hills to the ground beneath where the pit holes were.

The earthquake was so intense that the mountains started cracking up. Suddenly a huge rough stone-like monster shot up into the skies and started roaring. Meo was pushed around in the crowd who were escaping from the scene. She collapses down at the side of the walls so that she won’t get run over by huge men. The monster in its struggle scratched deeper holes for it to crawl out. While crawling out halfway, the monster noticed the crushed dead tress done by those men. Suddenly some bombs were activated and bombed the area close to the monster. It rages in fury and started to roar and roar in anger. Meo saw what it reacted to and realised she had the ability to change the plants colours by painting the trees back to life!

She then decided she have to stop the monster from coming out and turning the whole town into an empty space. She stood up and raced to the hills. She got off from the edge and slides down to the grounds below. She grabbed her brush and started swinging up paints and water. She changed the colours in a flash. As she was working on colouring, a huge shade covered the ground. She paused for a moment and turned to look behind. Her eye widened.

The monster was falling. She ran for dear life. It crashed down to the ground and activated more bombs. Meo was devastated at the sight. She pulled up her paintbrush and realised that it was broken due to the fall. She held the brush close to her chest and stared to weep. She felt something weird and looked up; forcing herself to say there is something to be done. There has to be a way. A light flashed from her hands. In shock, she looked down at her brush which it transformed. It was glowing brightly. She looked up and smiled sharply. She then ran up to the bombs and sprinkled a special antidote, transparent glitter paint. The bombs vanished immediately.

The monster regained it posture and stared at Meo. It looked sadly at the dead trees and land where it was once used to be so healthy. Meo then threw her brush in the air and started dancing, leaving all the work to her brushes’ glittering power. The monster was enlightened by the performance and special abilities that it took a liking to her. It manages to stand up and twist itself into a gentle tornado round Meo’s paint brush. Suddenly a huge light burst into the skies. Transforming the dead land into a more beautiful healthy garden full of fruits and lake and a soft yellowish green meadow.

The dragon was nowhere in sight. The men and women and kids from the town come out and rejoice.



Presentation Board
Title & sentence pitch
pictures/illustrations
story concept
characters
storyboard

Research
The news is from Japan due to an earthquake there.

Reflection
Earthquakes often occurs in certain areas of Japan, that is why their houses is always made of light materials. Everyone is finding a solution for it but cannot find an answer. The only way to avoid the earthquake is to move away or live under light materials.

Using light materials is because when an earthquake occurs, the houses collapse, the people will be able to lift up the fallen objects and run to safety. The houses that requires light materials are cheap and able to be easily rebuilt.

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MIND YOUR LANGUAGE 1ST episode


Chung Su Lee --- China
Miss Dolores Courtney --- Principle

A group of adult students enrolled into a school to learn English. In the process, they have difficulties understanding what each other is trying to say. They have very different personalities as they came from various countries. They are really funny trying to express themselves.


Chung Su Lee is from China. She is a secretary and is loyal to a patriotic Chairman Mao. She holds on to a book entitled "Quotations from Chairman Mao". She is fierce is does not show any expression.

Miss Dolores Courtney is the principle of the school. She sometimes give worried expressions to her teachers and students. She is very peculiar of bad English pronunciations and perfect English phrases.



3 act

Setup
Their teacher, Jeremy Brown, started the topic of introducing his students by asking them to introduce themselves.


Confrontation
Ranjeet Singh came into the class and irritates Ali Nadeem because of his race.


Resolution
The teacher gave them a task to give him money before he ran off, escaping the class.

What makes a good story?
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date: Thursday, 5 January 2012
time: 21:12


What makes a good story?


-Character/s
-motive
-conflict (drama)
-quest
-turning point
-climax
-resolution


- Characters
- 3-act structure
- Clear and proper language use
- Motive
- Resolution
- Conflict

A good story must have what it takes to bring a person's emotion go up and down.

I like to create stories in a way that they react with nature and colors. I feel that it relates to nature in reality. I like to give my characters unusual personalities to be able to portray them in a free and wild style. I also like my background to be simple and work with details on the characters.

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1. REVISED SCRIPT TEMPLATE CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM https://sites.google.com/site/nafawrites/downloads

- part1 - cover page with name/student no/class/subject,
story title, 1-sentence summary (1pg for part1)
- part2 - 1 sentence summary (yes, again) & story synopsis (1pg)
- part3 - 3 act structure (1pg)
- character Bio (half to 1pg)
- part4 - script - final draft (max 5 pages)
- part5 - (OPTIONAL) any notes, sketches, beats/treatment, etc

name/student no/class/subject on every page - see template.

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Stories
1 - Student's own story
2 - Use a location in your story
3 - Use an item in your story
4 - Non-human key character, eg animal, objects, etc
5 - 2 Key Characters with 1 motive (& they don't like each other)

general feedback on your stories/scripts:
- work out the 3-Act-Structure & Character Bio (point form/relevant info)
- work out treatment (point form/write AV, as u see/hear the show)
- at least script draft1 should be ready by next week
- for those with scripts, work on editing (make every word count)

those who are unsure of your story:
- discuss with your classmates,
- ask them for help & constructive comments.
- u don't have to follow any comments or suggestions
- try to see your story from another point of view.
- ask questions about your stories & character's behaviours/reactions to tighten the loose ends

on your scripts:
- no offense, but be cruel about cutting off words/dialogue that do not work for your story
- test: if u take out the phrases/words and it doesn't change your story, REMOVE.
- write info necessary for your story
- every word in your script counts & must be there for your story to work
- for improving on dialogue, rewrite/edit - say it better - keep it short, keep it easy to understand
- ask your classmates to help do a "script read", use voices to "act" your script out, see if the script/dialogue work when read

The X-Factor
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Class Exercise: MIND YOUR LANGUAGE
In your Blogs,
1. List all the characters in this show.
2. For each character, note their unique "voice" and traits/behaviour.
3. Look at each voice/trait/behaviour unique to the character. which are considered "typical/ stereotyped" and which are considered unique "personality"?

17 - We love stories
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Class exercise:
Practice story-telling using the 1-sentence summary in one blog entry.
ALL stories must be suitable for animation.

Step1: Create & Craft 10 stories into 1-sentence summary
Story1: Character driven story, eg Mr Bean
Story2: Story driven by a location.
Story3: Story driven by an item.
Story4: Story driven by a situation.
Story5: Story driven by Character's motive(s) or conflict with another Character.
Stories 6 to 10: Combination of above points for your stories.

Step2: Create stories for these genres:
Story 11: Drama
Story 12: Documentary
Story 13: News / Current Affairs
Story 14: Comedy
Story 15: Horror
Story 16: Action
Story 17: Mystery / Thriller / Crime
Story 18: Teenage Drama
Story 19: Romance
Story 20: Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Story 21: Children
Story 22: Adventure / Swashbucklers
Story 23 - 25: Combination of any genre from above.

Step3: Give 1 or 2 examples of a Blockbuster/Successful movie that fits the above 25-Genre-Driven Stories.

Examples of Blockbuster/Successful Movies for:
Story 11: Drama - Good Life Arigato, Papa.
Story 12: Documentary - Animal Planet
Story 13: News / Current Affairs - Straits Times
Story 14: Comedy - Big Bang Theory
Story 15: Horror - Ju-On
Story 16: Action - Mr & Mrs Smith
Story 17: Mystery / Thriller / Crime - Sherlock Holmes
Story 18: Teenage Drama - Hannah Montana
Story 19: Romance - Romeo and Juliet
Story 20: Fantasy / Sci-Fi - Final Fantasy 8
Story 21: Children - Teletubbies
Story 22: Adventure / Swashbucklers - Tomb Raider

Story 23 - 25: Combination of any genre from above
Story 23: Horror and Documentary - Taboo
Story 24: Action and Mystery - The Mummy
Story 25: Fantasy and Romance - Final Fantasy