Public Domain image from pixabay
Public Domain image from pixabay

The Brief:

Stories have a specific shape and we follow the paths of characters who deal with obstacles. Why does entertainment grab our interest, and what can we learn from that for our own communication? Here we start examining the story form and continue expanding our online reflection and creation muscles.

If you are just entering the You Show, have no worries, there are no attendance sheets here. See Unit 0: Building Your Set for details about getting your blog site set up and connected to the You Show. And then jump in below.

The Roughcut

What is in store this week from You Show Studios? Brian and Alan discuss the idea of story shape with a well known author.

Event List

This is what is going on this week. For those on scene at TRU, you are welcome to come to these events; and you will get more out of the experience by joining in and meeting/learning from others (who may be equally or more confused as you). Do not expect lectures from the Film Academy, many are working/practice open studio sessions.

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The Breakdown Sheet

Open the sheet for suggested activities to work on in Unit 1. Just keep in mind they are all optional, but try to keep on pace to continually write and reflect on what you are doing, even if it feels like a random thought or just an interesting reference you have found.

Open the sheet for details...

Extra Scenes

As a bonus some additional ideas and resources for thinking about the shape of story. You might want to consider writing a blog post about any ideas you get from these, and thinking about how the ways these elements might work in your own portfolio or web publishing. See if you can figure out how to embed videos in your blog! See tips for wordpress, blogger, and tumblr.

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Checklist

These are the activities covered in this unit. It’s a good idea at the end of the week to reflect back on everything you did as a summary post.

  • Create and blog about your blog’s potential organizational structure. Start using categories and tags/labels for your posts
  • Write a blog post about the shape of a story.
  • Write a blog post about the idea if story shapes in other forms of communication
  • Publish an existing piece of writing in the TRU Writing tool, and write a blog post about it.
  • Write a reflection about any of the extra story shape resources, draw connections to your own work or ideas for publishing online.
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