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Write down at least 10 events that made you who you are, and when in your life they appeared.
(Eg. world events, when siblings born, deaths, first romance, etc.)
Get a big sheet of paper, tape it down, and work on the floor!
Includes people & events that shaped you. (eg. births, deaths, world events, great/bad days, relationships, moving, etc.)
It Can:
Start before you were born
Have many branches
Be symbolic
Due Tomorrow:
Bring in stuff — inspired by your river of life — to make films with!
(Eg. special objects, old stuffed animals, digital pictures from Facebook).
Spend 15 minutes finishing up your river of life and then we'll share with each other.
(If you were absent, write a list of 10 events/people in your life that have made you, you.)
1. Describe the events on your river to your partners. Partners should just listen.
2. When you're finished....use post-its to:
Mark 3 people who were important.
Mark 3 places that were important.
Mark 1 event which, if it never happened,
would change your life.
(eg: Confidence, age, language, way you look >>
jobs, $, etc.)
In this program, we'll be making movies that feature invisible forces. To make movies, we'll need to storyboard.
Every finished minute of a professional movie takes the equivalent of one person working full time for ten years (20,000 hours).
Storyboarding a Scene from My River of Life
The stories should feature an invisible force and its role at this moment (eg. Obama).
Think about how to use props, photos, etc. that you can bring in from home, Facebook, etc.!!
Due Tomorrow:
1. Bring in stuff to make films with!
2. Storyboard.
3. If you have a phone, install Snapchat on it.
Storyboards with the butterfly effect
Example Project: Mr. Mitchell
Add a scene in your storyboard that highlights the butterfly effect.
What if your main event never happend? How would you be different?
What would you change if you could? How would your life be different?
We'll be here after school today (Friday) so that you can finish your stories!
Text Molly 1 photo of something in the built environment/school/home that's annoying or interesting. (eg. Why is it even there?)
Text it with your name and some explanation to 917-584-9839 by 6PM
Stories don't have to be long.
They don't even have to be written.
Today, we're going to make Snapchat stories.
Prompts for Snapchat stories:
...to make a complete story.
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Text us something (not a person) that annoys you or which you don't get. (eg. Why is it even there?)
Text to Molly at 917-584-9839
By the end of today, your project should be complete enough that you'd be happy to show it to friends
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Next: We'll be making movies that feature invisible forces.
By the end of today, everyone should have a project idea and storyboard.
Scenes from your life where invisible force X affects it.
Yourself narrating to the camera between clips of invisible force X affecting your life.
An anthropomorphization invisible force X
You could imagine anthropomorphizations of the invisible force who:
Takes your socks in the morning
Decides who you're attracted to
Is a physical manifestation of:
Sexism, Racism, Class, Greed, Innocence, Justice, etc.
People in different roles than they're expected to be in (eg. White Chicks)
Two worlds — One with invisible force X and one without it.
Showing the Consequences of a Force – How it shows up everywhere, all the time
Better: Talking from your experience
Worse: Being too heavy-handed, talking about what you think the audience thinks instead of speaking from your own experience
To document projects:
Free write about your experience over the past three weeks
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