Storytell Tutorial 3

Character

1. Character arc: The main character wanted to grow taller and bigger, but he doesn't realize that he could use his small stature to his advantage. He realizes, then, that soccer is not all about size.

2. Peeling the Onion: Injury doesn't stop him from training.

3. Universal Empathy: Character is good at soccer, and displays kindness to others by always encouraging the other players

4. Protagonist: (Round/Dynamic) The main character (boy). He drinks milk and eats a lot of vitamins/proteins in hopes to grow stronger and bigger. He uses his small stature to his advantage later on.

5. Antagonist: (Flat/Static) Other players. They all want to play soccer, but don't train as much. They don't change.

6. Minor character: (Flat/Static) His coach. He just gives advice and watches the players play

Conflict

1. Tension: The boy is competing against other players to get the starting position in soccer and ultimately become one of the best in the soccer competition.

2. Character Lock:  He drinks milk and eats a lot of vitamins/proteins in hopes to grow stronger and bigger. He doesn't get much bigger, but he gains self confidence in himself. He uses his small stature to his advantage later on.

3. Forced Action: The boy tries to play like a big player (with more physicality than technique), but he changes to play like a smaller player (with more technique than physicality)

4. High Stakes: It's his last season in the school. He wants to make an impact in the team and the competition.

Low Stakes: He needs to show up to try outs. However, he is very confident that he can get into the team.

Plants & Payoffs

1. Plant & Payoff: The boy is reminded of the first few matches of the season, in which he will be able to prove his skills.

2. Throughline: The boy wants to play to be the best and practices soccer. The boy gets into the soccer team. The boy wants to display his skills and help the team win.

Plot

1. Catalyst: It's his last season at the school. Thus, he wants to prove himself in soccer, before he leaves.

2. Conflict: The boy is competing against other players to get the starting position in soccer and ultimately become one of the best in the soccer competition. Will he get the starting position?

Task 3.2c

Léonard Cohen "Plato" (2010) by Ian Lumsden

I sometimes write a review, then scrap it, change the film, get it wrong, scrap it, write it again, scrap it, go back to the original via the Recycle Bin, and start again. Actually I don't. I've no time for that. So what I write I publish, given a little pruning. The fabulously named Léonard Cohen and his equally fabulously entitled creation, Plato. Here a figure struggles to get the shape just right. Time and again the object is discarded until, as an apple falling from a tree - or was that another Eureka moment and a different Brit or Greek - a solution is found. Funny, retro, clever and fluidly drawn. Léonard studied at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifand received Best Graduation Film at Annecy 2011. How gratifying the judges rewarded such an simple, inventive film, given a plethora of mind boggling 3D with every colour in the palette movies, many of which I, of course, feature here.

Snowy

Hey! How did you do that?

I posted this picture yesterday afternoon on my Facebook wall and was asked this very question.

Camera Nikon D700
Exposure 1/8000 sec
Aperture f/1.8
Focal Length 85 mm
ISO Speed 400

Those setting are immaterial this time.

To tell the truth, I just grabbed the camera.
The 85mm lens was on it.
The aperture was already on 1.8
The ISO I did have to change because it was on 1250 from shooting the previous night.
I lowered the ISO to 400.
When I lined up my exposure meter/ shutter speed; this is where is fell (1/8000)
This super fast shutter speed stopped to snowflakes.
It was accidental. Meaning, I didn’t think about it.
But a fast shutter speed is probably pretty important.

What I did do…..

I took the camera off of auto focus and I manually focused on the snowflakes.

Trying to focus on the falling flakes was just not possible on auto focus. The camera kept wanting to focus on the trees
in the background. So I switched the camera to manual focus. (This is a little lever on the side of my camera. Look in your manual to find out where your button/lever is.)

I needed something dark in the background so the snowflakes would show up so I aimed my camera at this trio of pines.

Click. Click.

That’s all there is to it.

I didn’t even have to get my feet wet, as I took this picture from our back door.

“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?”
~J.B. Priestley

Encourage one another,
Miz Booshay