LAB:
Exercise: Complete the following character exercise this morning in the lab.
Looking at pictures and watching people can be a goldmine for character building. As a playwright, one of the most important tasks you will have to accomplish is creating interesting characters. Boring characters make for boring plays, so it's helpful to have a few ideas about character design before jumping into the pool of monologues, scenes, and plays.
Task #1: Brainstorming Characters:
IN YOUR JOURNAL or NOTEBOOK please complete the following exercise. DO NOT TURN THIS IN. Instead, you may use it for a writing assignment.
Please take a look at the photos of people below. For each photo, give the person a name, age or age range, and 1-sentence physical description. Follow this up with a 1-sentence goal or major decision.
For example:
GEORGETTE MINSKY, female, age 25-30. Georgette always wears a baseball glove (even to church) and too much lipstick. She wants to witness a miracle first hand or at least win her minor-league softball team's championship trophy in memory of her dead grandma.
Create a character for any 3 of these pictures (you may do all of them, if you'd like):
Now find some pictures on your own (or use your own photographs) and continue your list.
Task #2: Please turn in your homework from last class: (see post below for details). Interview with Paula Vogel at the Playwright Center in Minneapolis. (Please view at least 15 minutes of the interview. You may watch more, as your time allows. Please make sure you let me know which section you watched or how long you watched by indicating the time code on your homework draft.
Summarize the section you watch by summarizing the key or important points she makes (or important points for you to hear as a beginning playwright). Complete your summary paragraph with your own reaction to what Paula Vogel's key points were in the section(s) you watched. Turn in for participation credit today.
Task #3: If you have not yet turned in a draft of your play script, please do so. It is now late.
Task #4: Please begin reading your homework: How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel.
CLASSROOM:
#1: Please get the play Driving Miss Daisy from the library.
#2: When we return to the classroom we will complete a scene exercise. We will use the exercises we wrote today later in the course.
#3: In small groups of 4, begin reading the play Driving Miss Daisy in class. Please bring your play scripts back with you next class to complete the play reading in your group.
HOMEWORK: Please read Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize Winning play: How I Learned to Drive (aim to complete the play by Tuesday of next week!)
Exercise: Complete the following character exercise this morning in the lab.
Looking at pictures and watching people can be a goldmine for character building. As a playwright, one of the most important tasks you will have to accomplish is creating interesting characters. Boring characters make for boring plays, so it's helpful to have a few ideas about character design before jumping into the pool of monologues, scenes, and plays.
Task #1: Brainstorming Characters:
IN YOUR JOURNAL or NOTEBOOK please complete the following exercise. DO NOT TURN THIS IN. Instead, you may use it for a writing assignment.
Please take a look at the photos of people below. For each photo, give the person a name, age or age range, and 1-sentence physical description. Follow this up with a 1-sentence goal or major decision.
For example:
GEORGETTE MINSKY, female, age 25-30. Georgette always wears a baseball glove (even to church) and too much lipstick. She wants to witness a miracle first hand or at least win her minor-league softball team's championship trophy in memory of her dead grandma.
Create a character for any 3 of these pictures (you may do all of them, if you'd like):
Now find some pictures on your own (or use your own photographs) and continue your list.
Task #2: Please turn in your homework from last class: (see post below for details). Interview with Paula Vogel at the Playwright Center in Minneapolis. (Please view at least 15 minutes of the interview. You may watch more, as your time allows. Please make sure you let me know which section you watched or how long you watched by indicating the time code on your homework draft.
Summarize the section you watch by summarizing the key or important points she makes (or important points for you to hear as a beginning playwright). Complete your summary paragraph with your own reaction to what Paula Vogel's key points were in the section(s) you watched. Turn in for participation credit today.
Task #3: If you have not yet turned in a draft of your play script, please do so. It is now late.
Task #4: Please begin reading your homework: How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel.
CLASSROOM:
#1: Please get the play Driving Miss Daisy from the library.
#2: When we return to the classroom we will complete a scene exercise. We will use the exercises we wrote today later in the course.
#3: In small groups of 4, begin reading the play Driving Miss Daisy in class. Please bring your play scripts back with you next class to complete the play reading in your group.
HOMEWORK: Please read Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize Winning play: How I Learned to Drive (aim to complete the play by Tuesday of next week!)
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