Video Idea

Video Idea:

-Starts at gas station
-someone steals banana(antagonist)
-man with integrity sees the thief (protagonist)
-catches the thief
-fight sequence
-protagonist acquires stolen banana

Protagonist vs. Antagonist Brainstorm Writing

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You will write details about six characters; three antagonists, three protagonists.

Begin with one character, a protagonist. Write down their name. Write their current desires and motivations in life. Write down their childhood/backstory. These are the most important pieces.

Now write down their physical description, physical quirks, personality flaws. This is secondary to the motivation and backstory. It’s the icing on the cake, and it’s still important.

Now write that character’s nemesis using the exact same process (desires, backstory, physical ing onionsand personality quirks, etc). Think about why and how they are blocking the protagonist from achieving their goal. Is it malicious? Accidental?

Repeat this with two other sets of characters.

NOTE: You do not have to use all or any of these characters for your video if you don’t want to. It is an exercise to get you thinking about character building. On the other hand, this may trigger some brilliant thought that leads to a wonderful video project. You won’t know unless you put your heart and head into it.






Protagonist #1:
Smitty McGroin:  Pete is a 57 year old man who lives in a storage shed by the rec. center.  Every Tuesday, the city has a board meeting and he shows up thinking he is the president.  He has lived in the same small town of Kickenwing his whole life, and now they face a serious rabbies problem.  He has many good ideas for the town but nobody listens to him because he doesn’t own land and has a lisp.  Smitty’s only goal is to help out his home town.

Antagonist #1:
Johnny Pistachio: Johnny is a respected member of the city board and is the real president.  However, he has terrible ideas and realizes Smitty’s ideas are great.  Not wanting to get replaced by Smitty, he sets out to sabotage him by infesting Smitty’s shed with fruit flies, giving rabbies to the animals in Smitty’s area and putting a “kick me” sign on Smitty’s back at the board meeting.


Protagonist #2:
Hernandez Fiero: 32 year old Fiero has a passion to make videos of himself cooking.  However, his cat keeps getting in the shot and becoming the center of attention in all his videos, ruining his desire to show his viewers his food.  Fiero is the best chef in the world, however no one can learn about this because of his cat, which keeps him from TV shows, owning restaurants, and other things top chefs do.  Why would he not just cook somewhere his cat is not? Because he has cooked in the same kitchen his whole life.

Antagonist #2:
Hernandez Fiero: Even though it may appear his cat is the antagonist in this story, Fiero is in a battle with himself for if he wants to take the risk of leaving his loyalty to his kitchen for making the big time.  At the verge of when he is about to take his talents to the world, his cat burns itself on the stove, and Fiero remembers his original love for cooking with his cat, and decides to stay cooking in his kitchen.


Protagonist: #3:
Oliver the Pirate: Oliver has been raised by pirates his whole life, however he has always been the worst pirate.  His community decides to send him away to sea, and on the last night he overhears the pirates saying they will take over the island of Jiujima in 2 weeks.  Oliver has no idea what this island is, however when they cast him out to see he ends up landing on the island Jiujima.  As he becomes friends with the local people of jiujima, Oliver decides to try and defend his new island of family, despite his troubles as a pirate.  

Antagonist #3:
Captain Richard the Pirate:  Richard has hated Oliver since they were young pirates and is the top dog of pirates.  His family has always led their group of pirates because of how aggressive and racist they are.  When Richard grows up, he is the one who plans to attack the island of Jiujima.

I remember...

-baseball field
-old house(s)
-old friends' houses/neighborhood
-school roof
-lightsabers
-river
-old classrooms
-woods
-drug mart
-railroad tracks
-municipal
-franks park
-backyard
-18th/4th street
-football
-snowboarding
-fishing

Why don't you dance?

1) Raymond Carver uses different sights like the stripes on the mattress and the reading lamp on the bedside.  He also took about 2 paragraphs just to set the scene so the reader would have a visual idea of the story.

2)-That it is nighttime because she could see stars.

   -That it is nighttime because they could see all the houses turning on their lights down the street,      which you can only do when it is dark outside.

3) "He looked at them as they sat at the table. In the lamplight, there was something 

about their faces. It was nice or it was nasty. There was no telling."

-It shows it was dark with just lamplight which gave a lighting so you are unable to see the their expressions.

"Arms about each other, their bodies pressed together, the boy and the girl moved 

up and down the driveway. They were dancing. And when the record was over, they did 

it again, and when that one ended, the boy said. "I'm drunk."

-The two were dancing on the driveway (most likely at night), and the boy got drunk.

Evaluation Criteria

Criteria: Group Movie Project


Describe your role in the production of the class movie. How did your contribution make things more efficient? How did you help make the movie better? What specific contributions did you make? Did you go above and beyond, or simply show up? Be honest.

I changed my roles from day to day.  First, I was the script supervisor and was in charge of putting everyone in place to shoot the scene.  The second day, I used the audio machine which was important to get more quality sound during the movie.  Third, I just played as an extra.  I think I did help to the making of the movie and it would have gone somewhat slower without me.

Describe one or more things you learned about the writing process that you did not know before working on this project.

I never knew everyone comes together from their smaller group to contribute pieces to the bigger group.

Describe one or more things you learned about the production (filming) process that you did not know before working on this project.

I never knew conversation scenes are shot from both peoples view so it is easier to switch back and forth.

Describe one or more things you learned about the post-production (editing, sound, etc.) process that you did not know before working on this project.

I never knew audio from the audio device was put into the movie at the end.

Are you satisfied with the final product? Why or why not? Be honest.

Yes, I thought it turned out funny and used many different people's ideas.

Suggest one improvement for next year’s class. What could I do to make it easier/better/more informative/more fun?

Moving quicker. It was starting to get tedious toward the end of the project so maybe getting more organized before starting to film.

Evaluation
Individual Contribution to Pre-Production Excellent    |    Good     |    Average    |     Poor

Individual Contribution to Production Excellent    |    Good     |    Average    |     Poor

Individual Contribution to Post-Production Excellent    |    Good     |    Average    |     Poor