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Writing Prompt: Haunted House
Our prompt for this assignment was to write a story about a Haunted Place that didn't use stereotypical words to describe the setting, such as scary, haunted, ghost, etc.
The protagonist and world of my story, The Rainbow Brigade.
Symbolic Communication and Cartography: Overview
Unfortunately, as I’m writing this, I’m already aware that the course curriculum has changed. The teacher for the class is a super awesome guy and had told us that he was working on changing some of the assignments. He recently told us that the changes have gone into effect.
Because of this… I’m not sure how relevant my post is going to be for you. But, here it goes anyway.
My Week Four Diagram Analysis for Fundamentals of Physical Science
Yes. I did use "gorgeously sexy" in my scene description.
My Week Three Diagram Analysis for Fundamentals of Physical Science
Because Tangled...
My Week Two Diagram Analysis for Fundamentals of Physical Science
I couldn't NOT do one of these about Aerith!
My first Diagram Analysis for Fundamentals of Physical Science.
Shipping Jaytonio forever. <3
Fundamentals of Physical Science: Overview
There’s not much that I can really say about this class, because it’s exactly what you suspect. An online, general education class revolving around scientific terminology and theories…
But, I’ll try to give you a more detailed explanation below.
Literary Techniques and Story Development: Overview
Literary Techniques and Story Development: Overview
This was my February class… and I’m just now posting about it. I apologize. I won’t promise to “get better about this” or anything, because I never would’ve expected this much time to have passed before I was able to do the synopsis. But, alas, it did. Oops.
I won’t go into too much detail with this class, simply because it’s been a while… But, here you go.
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Going from Creative Writing Research into Literary Techniques and Story Development was quite the challenge. Essentially, LTS had us doing one major assignment every week, and the rest was handled with in-class discussions of our reading assignments, lectures, and/or movies.
We had two books for the class. Physical books. Thank goodness.
The first is called Adaptations. It is a compilation of short stories that have been adapted into feature length films. A lot of the stories we read I hadn’t seen the movie version… but we would watch the trailers to the movies during our class discussions, and it was really neat to hear about how they differed.
Our second book was the focus of our final week. It is a graphic novel about the Holocaust called Maus. I absolutely hated it, but seemed to be one of the only ones in the class that did. I won’t go into the details on why I didn’t like the book – I could write an entire blog about it, I’m sure – but I will just say that I don’t really like historical or depressing themes in stories… so it wouldn’t have been something that I would’ve picked up off the shelf in a bookstore.
We watched a lot of movies, because our teacher was a film critic.
Which… added a lot of pressure to us, because after doing some research on his reviews… he can be pretty harsh! (Rightfully so, usually… but still! The man can be brutal!)
I hadn’t seen any of the movies that we had watched before, and honestly – I couldn’t tell you the names of all of them. I do remember Children of Men, Royal Tennenbaums, and I think the other movie was Moon? Something like that?
We all really enjoyed the discussions after the movies, and I felt that we were all able to tie the themes and aspects of the movies into the lessons that we were discussing that week.
Each week we also had one writing prompt that we did in class. These assignments were usually quick, half hour to an hour exercises that volunteers would read aloud afterward and we’d discuss what worked and what didn’t. Nothing too exciting. These all got compiled into a folder at the end of the month and were graded along with our ‘class participation’ score for about 15% of our grade.
We had three assignments for the first three weeks, called Creative Starters. These were meant to be the ‘start of the story’ and often we didn’t even get to the Inciting Incident of our draft. Each week we had to come up with a NEW story beginning to workshop, and he encouraged us to use different medias that we hadn’t experimented with. Naturally, I did three different formats…
But these assignments were exactly why it was so difficult to transition. CWR was all about honing in on ONE story and immersing ourselves into that one world. LTS focused on being able to dish out idea after idea after idea, because in the real world, we aren’t going to be able to make it off of just one idea.
I really appreciated the hard transition. It added an extra layer of challenge to each week. In fact, by the third week, I was so worried about wanting all of my stories to be different and unique and fleshed out with depth… that I didn’t even start the assignment until the day before the due date! No worries – I got it in on time.
The best part of the class for me was workshopping these projects. Our teacher encouraged us to try scripted formats (instead of prose), so when we would workshop them, we would assign roles and different people would read for different characters. It was awesome, and often hilarious.
The final project was an expansion to one of our previous Creative Starters. Basically, we got to revise and add to one of the three projects we had created for the class.
Unfortunately, we never got to workshop these drafts, but it was a fun assignment all the same.
If I had to say something negative about the class (other than having to read Maus) it would be about the grading. Let me pull out my soapbox…
I pride myself in being a 4.0 student. And this was the first class that my grades didn’t really show that. There was a growth throughout the course, but I don’t think a single person got a 100 in the class… By the end of the class, I had the lowest grade I have gotten at Full Sail – an A. I fought it. All of the comments on my assignments were positive; not getting an A+ didn’t make sense. So I called and asked for clarification … and the teacher was really understanding, easy to talk to, and helpful. He even changed my grade for an assignment that I should’ve gotten higher marks on – which brought my GPA back to the 4.0 that is should be.
Creative Writing Research: Week Four
After all of the Hall of Fame festivities, I'm surprised it wasn't hard to get back into the grind of class~! But, I suppose that says a lot to how much I loved this class.
This is the final song that I created for the final instructional podcast.
I'll admit, by this point - I was checked out from this class. I had just spent two and a half weeks of my month going to Disney and Universal every day... My friends were all getting back from their own month away... So I was just kind of in a rush to get it done.
My solution was to just keep it basic, one-instrument only. And I think that it transitions well and still manages to sound nice. Just... no story this time.
My Hero's Journey
Another part of one of our four assignments.
This portion, we were supposed to tie the different stages of The Hero's Journey into an event that has happened in our own lives. Mine, naturally, reflects on my vacation to France.
Side Note: If you're interested in reading more specifics about my adventure in France, check out my other blog here. ^_^
No Adverbs
One of the rules we learned in Visual Thinking and Writing was to never use adverbs. Ever. Well, okay, sparingly if you have to.
One of our test questions for a take home test was to elaborate and explain WHY this rule is important... so here was my answer.
Here's another one of my Podcast songs. This one I used for the first podcast (not the tutorial).
I tried to have a change of themes every time the video would change events. And tried to have the song tell a story of a journey of some sort. It's strange... but I kind of like it.
PMAI Archetypes
This was part of one of our four assignments, where we had to assess our scores for a PMAI quiz we had taken earlier in the month.
We were tasked at giving our top scores, our lowest score, and then explaining how these worked for us as individuals.
Elementists: The Reveal
Our very first assignment in Visual Thinking and Writing was to write a sample. Anything. Just write for ten (maybe it was fifteen) minutes. And then submit it.
Here's what I got.
Taking a quick break from showing you work from the students of Full Sail University to let you know about the free Hall of Fame Music Festival happening next week. Check out the video below for a preview and for more information and set times, go to http://halloffame.fullsail.edu/musicfestival.