This exercise is to help to get ideas of how to visualise parts of a story by using either found or photographed images of the subject under investigation. This could be for a person or persons to get ideas of how their character or behaviour can be best expressed visually or a place, again, how … More Exercise 7 – Visual research and visual phenomena
I put this exercise in to practice with my wife. My wife had an acting roll in a play ‘Fruit Cakes’ written by a friend Troy Chessman, in which my wife plays a gossipy office manager in a local GP surgery. The play was set in the 1960’s and is about a young man coming … More Exercise 8 – Improvisation
I adopted this exercise for the work of my final assignment. My author for novels is Charles Dickens with Great Expectations as my favourite and for short Ghost stories, next to Charles Dickens has to be M.R. James and probably everyones favourite ‘Whistle and I’ll come to you my lad’. Plot or Dramatic Structure … More Exercise 9 – Adaption
In this exercise I had a brainstorming session with some friends and family to discuss ideas that I could use to create a story or add in to a story. I made notes whilst my friends Barry & Chris and my wife Sarah bounced around ideas. Topics discussed was Ghosts, North Korea & Donald Trump, … More Exercise 6 – Creativity techniques
A photo of Howard Hughes’ ship fitted out for the CIA taken in 1974 and computer graphic sonar impression of a sunken submarine image taken from: https://jayseaarchaeology.wordpress.com/2017/01/15/the-shipwreck-that-never-was-the-ux-791-and-great-lakes-maritime-history/ In this exercise I have found several different news articles both new and old that have all been published on the 26 February 2018. these stories could all … More Exercise 10 – Newspapers and magazines
On chatting with my wife regarding ideas for a film we agreed that a story about something connected with our family was not a good idea right now and instead we got talking about making a vampire style film as we had just watched an old Dracula movie. However, as we talked it through further … More Exercise 5 – People
Typically, I choose a very difficult subject to research. Whilst many people may have stormy relationships with their mother-in-laws their stories don’t find themselves in Newspapers or on the internet. However, I found and interesting article about love and hate. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-prove-it-really-is-a-thin-line-between-love-and-hate-976901.html
In this exercise, I am taking forward my thought from exercise 1 and 2 to further develop them. Taking the recent experience I had with my late mother-in-law, I want to explore these feelings that I am having. Perhaps it will appear as insensitive to some, being so close to her death; but for me … More Exercise 3 – Conceptual and thematic ideas
Taking the first idea from exercise one, I have written out a small mind-map expanding on the theme of love and hate in relationships. If I was to make a film from this idea I would plan it as follows: Set-up / Act 1. Son-in-law arrives in car with his wife, she asks him to … More Exercise 2 – Analysis
Two ideas from my own life: The love hating relationship. My wife’s mother has just passed away and although my relationship with her was very stormy the news of her death hit me harder than I ever expected. How can the emotions of hate and love get so mixed up? My mother-in-law was a very … More Exercise 1 – Ideas from your life.
Setting the Scene 