Lesson Plan 6.2.2010

Lesson Plan 6.2.2010

RECAP AND MOVEMENT FORWARD
1. Getting out of yourself and becoming another character – diary/journal - ANAIS NIN Journals, Max Brod – Kafka’s Diaries
2. Fleshing out a character through narrative – The Diary was first attempt.
3. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty/Hills Like White Elephants – Short Story as a form of narrative
4. Narratorial Devices
(a) The funeral Oration – The Light has Gone Out by Jawaharlal Nehru, Brutus and Mark Antony in Julius Caesar
(b) The Obituary – a different kind of Biography
(c) Conversation/Dialogue, Exposition, 3 act structure which can work inside a single act too – Conversation is passé but can you use dialogue not as some purposive attempt to reach conclusions or express mere points of view, but as the very prerequisite of authentic relationship between man and man, and between man and God, man and nature, man and objects, etc?
(d) Descriptive writing – turning a space or object into visual language
(e) Rhetoric – point of view, art of persuasion
(f) Character, setting, conversation – they must become integrated in a natural manner in any narrative
(g) The Ballad – Hurricane by Bob Dylan, The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
(h) What is the central idea that allows a story to emerge?
(i) The Process = Ideation – Visualisation – Process (use of and integration of narratorial devices) – Execution – Form
(j) In creating a narrative, move from the General/generic to the Particular/Focused/Pointed, from the Idea to the Story.
(k) Every narrative has other narratives attached to them – every story has a counter story – Multiple Narratives about singular events, an event is looked at from Multiple Perspectives.
(l) Narratives that are formulaic are “control or conditioning mechanisms”. They can be used in both free countries and totalitarian countries. How do you break narrative structures that are used to control you or define/ imprison/restrict your creative possibilities?
(m) Poetry as form – Sleeper in the Valley by Arthur Rimbaud
What is the central idea behind the Raven?
State of mind – Loss (Love)
Are there different types of love that can be explored through narratives?
Puppy love
Carnal love
Platonic love
Romantic love
Obsessive love
Voyeuristic love
Tragic love
Gay love
Oedipal love – Oedipus Complex
Electra love – Electra Complex (Miklos Jansco – Electra)
Consensual love
Eros – sexual, romantic, creative, energy, eros personified as a God - Kama-
Storge – love that exists among friends – through thick and thin, all for one and one for all - The Three Musketeers, Sholay, Lord of the Rings
Philia – within family relationship – The Parent Trap, Friends
Agape – unconditional love – supposedly only God is capable, supposedly only one type of God is capable of – The Giving Tree, The Mighty River, Christ on the Cross, The Little Prince
Logline: A 40-year old man experiences puppy love.
L’Ennui , Lolita – are these narratives examples of the above log line or is it about some other kind of love?
What is the central idea behind Hurricane?
Racism
Justice-Injustice-Denial of Justice
http://www.chameleon-translations.com/sample-Zola.shtml
J’Accuse is also a narrative in the form of a Letter. It tells the Dreyfuss story from the other side of the fence just as Hurricane does.
READING:
Anais Nin – Preface to Delta of Venus
Relationship between creator of narrative and consumer (market/purchaser) of the narrative.
Who controls the transaction? How or why is it controlled?
The mix of narrative.
VIEWING
2nd Episode of the film Tickets
Homework:
Do an analysis of the second episode of Tickets using the 3-act structure combined with the Exposition-Rising Action-Climax-Falling Action-Denouement.