What is Theme? Write Your Story Time to settle on one idea (ideally one of the three you pitched in class) and expand it into a full story. *At this stage, you are not writing this in screenplay format, yet* Write in prose form, with two additional requirements: #1: Do your best to only writeContinue reading “Filmmaking Week 5”
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Filmmaking Class Week 4
Class Notes: Theme = the inferred stance taken on a topic of a story. Everything that happens within a story should reference back to a theme. Reflection Questions for Six Word Memoir Project My Answer: For my Six Word Memoir I skimped on the writing part. I was in “documentary” mind set. I did brainstormContinue reading “Filmmaking Class Week 4”
Filmmaking Class Week 3
Brainstorm Screenplay Ideas Brainstorm ideas for a screenplay using the “Personal Menu”. Choose 3 different things you put on the list and think of times in your life that illustrate each. Write about the moment or time in your life when you realized each thing was true. Start in class and finish for homework. MyContinue reading “Filmmaking Class Week 3”
Identity & Reality: Cinematic Production & Critical Studies Week 1&2
As part of my personal growth in 2023, I am taking a filmmaking class at the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. The class is taught by Sophie Lane. Filmmaking is about communicating ideas through audio-visual means. In this class I will practice visual storytelling that is personal and compelling and learn to connect with myContinue reading “Identity & Reality: Cinematic Production & Critical Studies Week 1&2”
Intermediate Art Project 4 Drawing Re-Do
As part of my personal growth in 2022, I am taking an intermediate drawing class at the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. The class is taught by Jeff Nesbit. After spending a couple of weeks drawing parts of a face, project four was to copy two statutes from a National Geographic magazine. What went well?Continue reading “Intermediate Art Project 4 Drawing Re-Do”
Hands and Heads
As part of my personal growth in 2022, I am auditing art classes at the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts, taught by Jeff Nesbit. I layered water soluble graphite, purple watercolor paint and gesso to make a ground. A ground, short for background, is a base used to prepare a support for drawing or aContinue reading “Hands and Heads”
Light Box Photography
This week’s substitute teaching assignment is photography. Today the intermediate class explored using a light box. Students brought objects from home that are special to them.
Intermediate Art Project 4
As part of my personal growth in 2022, I am taking an intermediate drawing class at the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. The class is taught by Jeff Nesbit. After spending a couple of weeks drawing parts of a face, project four was to copy two statutes from a National Geographic magazine. What went well?Continue reading “Intermediate Art Project 4”
What stuck with you?
Sixth graders GET IT! I subbed a class today at the Rivers School in Weston, MA, that is studying water and climate change. This is hanging on the door.
A Question of Volume
This week I was the substitute teacher for 8th grade Introductory Physical Science. To stretch those young minds and break up the seat work a bit, they were given a challenge to see what they understand about volume. They could work individually or with partners. The Challenge: The town of Bumpus had inherited a squareContinue reading “A Question of Volume”
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