NAFA - DM1I Storytelling
Martian Life
Posted on Wednesday, April 9, 2014
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
TITLE: Martian Life
GENRE: Sci-fi
TARGET AUDIENCE: Teen & Adults
LOGLINE:
Robotic Rover was sent to
Mars to investigate when a satellite rotating above Mars detected an
unexplained explosion.
SYNOPSIS:
A satellite rotating above
Mars detected an unexplained massive explosion when it captured a bright light
beamed out from Martian land. NASA immediately sends a Robotic Rover to
investigate the cause. Months later when the rovers successfully landed on
Mars, NASA was shocked with fear when the rover send back photos capture by the
devices.
3 ACT STRUCTURE: (in point form below)
ACT ONE: Novelty, a
Rover, was sent to Mars to investigate an unexplained explosion if it might
cause the planet to move out of line and collide with Earth
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Controllers are doing their normal daily job
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Suddenly, ‘red alert’ siren went off
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White Alert = Small event/issue
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Yellow Alert = major event/issue
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Red Alert = Catastrophic event/issue
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Satellite above Mars detected explosion
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Satellite send back images to Earth and found
unexplained lights beamed out from the Martian Ground
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NASA send Robotic Rover named Novelty, to
investigate the massive explosion
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Novelty is equipped with similar human features
like the 2 arms, and hands to hold on equipment. In addition, it was about 2
meter in height and 3 meter in width which also equipped with driller, scanner,
laser, 2 front and 1 back camera, and research tools required to complete
certain task on Mars
·
NASA shocked with fear when Novelty send images
back to Earth when it landed successfully on Mars after 6 months
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Glowing cracks were found on Martian ground.
Just like a cracked frozen sea
·
Novelty move ahead and started the drilling
process near the glowing cracks to get the inner soil if there are any danger
around the areas.
ACT TWO: Novelty
found that Extraterrestrial had been living under Mars for centuries on high
technology mothership. Novelty straggles to reformat their system when it found
out it plans to destroy humanity.
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Novelty found highly dangerous radiation around
the area and believe high technology spacecraft or building must be below it
ACT THREE: Novelty destroys
the system core which caused Mars to break into 2 large pieces. However, Earth
now face a direct hit from the broken pieces.
LOGLINE:
Robotic Rover was sent to
Mars to investigate when a satellite rotating above Mars detected an
unexplained explosion.
STORYLINE
Controllers
at NASA are doing their daily routine job.
Suddenly,
‘red alert’ siren went off.
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White Alert = Small event/issue
-
Yellow Alert = major event/issue
-
Red Alert = Catastrophic event/issue
NASA
Satellite above Mars detected huge explosion.
When
the satellite send back images to Earth, it found unexplained lights beamed out
from the Martian Ground.
NASA
then sends Robotic Rover named Novelty, to investigate the massive explosion
Novelty
is equipped with similar human features like the 2 arms, and hands to hold on
equipment. In addition, it was about 2 meter in height and 3 meter in width
which also equipped with driller, scanner, laser, 2 front and 1 back camera,
and research tools required to complete certain task on Mars
NASA
shocked with fear when Novelty send images back to Earth when it landed
successfully on Mars after 6 months
Glowing
cracks were found on Martian ground. Just like a cracked frozen sea
Novelty move ahead and
started the drilling process near the glowing cracks to get the inner soil if
there are any danger around the areas.
Novelty found a highly
dangerous radiation around the area and believes high technology spacecraft or
building must be below it
When
Novelty move ahead as it drill deeper, it found that Extraterrestrial had been
living under Mars for centuries on high technology mothership. Novelty
straggles to reformat their system when it found out it plans to destroy
humanity.
NASA must
act fast or face the consequences of humanity being destroyed.
Novelty
moves into the core system and destroy the system core.
It then
shut down the entire Extraterrestrial races and eventually caused a major liquid
leak which causes a large explosion which destroyed the extraterrestrial
including Novelty.
Satellite
above Mars then send back images again showing technology destroyed.
First-Date on Train
Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Title: First-Date on TrainGenres: Romance
Logline:
“It's 6 past 5 and the skies were still dark. However, it's my
daily routine to wake up and prepare for work.
Anyway, my name is Jason. Had been single for all these time, as I
have dedicated all my times to my work or probably, friend zoned.”
As I walked out of the house, I could hear the
echo of the wind gashing right into my ears. The wind was cold.
“I thought this would be the usual routine, but today seem
different.
Everyone seems to be happier.
It took me awhile to realize today is Valentine’s Day!
Well, Valentine’s Day does not seem special to me since I’m
single. Not quite until I met someone who caught my attention in the train...”
Everyone in the train was either using their
mobile devices or sleeping. However, this girl with her black spectacle, who
was seated in the last cabin, was reading and smiling to a book.
I went forward to get a closer look.
The front cover goes:
“This is my love life. It Suck!”
When I looked up on her, somehow there is
strange feeling which make my heart beat like I’m running!
She seems to be a sweet looking girl with long
hair.
I was standing right in front of her and out of
a sudden, she looks up.
I quickly turn away and look somewhere else.
She looks like she is going to alight soon as I
keep telling myself to get her Facebook first before she alight!
True enough, at City Hall, she stood up and
alighted.
I was disappointed.
Within the next few days, I was doing exactly
the same thing. Woke up exactly at the same time, and hoping I could meet her
again.
Fortunately, on the 8th day, I
finally found her again.
She was still reading the same book.
This time, I walk over and greeted her:
“Hey! Interesting book huh?”
She looked up with a smile on her face and
replied:
“Hi? Yeah. You read it too?”
Of course I have to act as if I read the book so
there will be more conversation.
...
to be continue..
...
to be continue..
5 Genres
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2014
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Sci-fi
1. Intelligent Alien’s form founded by Scientist at the red planet, Mars.
1. Intelligent Alien’s form founded by Scientist at the red planet, Mars.
2. Extraterrestrial returned to Earth for
revenge.
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Action
1. Humanity was threatened by creatures
with Satellite nuke to take over Earth
2. Vehicle transformation attacked the
White House and fears the president’s life
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Documentary
1. Lion kidnapped orangutan to get food
2. Singapore Airline Airbus 380 crashed
landed at San Francisco due to dual engine failure
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Romance
1. Two dogs fell in love when both of them
where met at a dog carnival in Singapore
2. Criminal that robs a bank fell in love
with a female cop as she tries to help him in his escape plan
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Fantasy
1. A crew of scientists travelled across
the universe 15 lights years away from home and found a planet of fantasy
world.
2. A man was in the verge of ending his life,
while suddenly a bright light bought him to heaven which he thought he was
dead.
Brainstorm Ideas
Posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2014
1. Think about an Issueeg. I want to tell a story about ...
- people with weight issues
- teenage sex
- gangsters
- parent-children problems
- eating disorders
What if ...
- John wakes up and finds that he is all alone in the world, he finds out that everyone's died from a mysterious illness...
- Jane joins a gang after a heated argument with her parents when they criticized her friends
Lecturer believe he is always right even on pronouncing the students name. Example below:
2. Think about whether the issues relate to your target audience
Student's name was pronounced wrongly. (It happened in school)
Key Character: Lecturer
Lecturers trying to pronounce student's name but they were not pronounced correctly because he thought he was over 20 years of experience so "he is always right". Student will now try to explain to the lecturer that he pronounced it wrongly. However, he does not believe it and thought the student was trying to interrupt him.
4. loglines
Students of a substitute lecturer got themselves into trouble when trying to correct their name correctly when the lecturer pronounced wrongly and got pissed off.
Target Audience
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In every industry, the TA is the reason for work/projects. and yes, it's all about the money... so... It is YOUR job to know and understand your TA so that you can fulfil the client's brief.i) identify a TA, do a list
ii) give examples of shows that are for that TA
iii) list demographics and psychographics of TA
(= profile of TA)
iv) what are the interests and issues that the TA are facing in life? and what kinds of storylines/key messages would they appreciate/LOVE in a screenplay?
v) list some themes and story ideas for a screenplay that would appeal to / attract the TA
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PRE-SCHOOL - below 5years
- teletubbies
- high 5
- baby looney tunes
- mickey mouse clubhouse
demographics
- sex - male / female
- race / culture
- age ?
psychographics
- short attention span
- limited understanding / language ability
- love song and dance
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Young Adults
- twilight
- transformers
- guardians of the galaxy
- icarly
- drake and josh
- breaking bad
- how i met your mother
- hunger games
- jackass (MTV)
demographics
- 15-25 years old
- sex
psychographics
- interests - romance? action, "cool factor"
- issues - self esteem, self image - weight issues, pimples, shy, teen pregnancy, pre-marital sex, drugs, gangsters, school, bully, being labelled/misunderstood, parent/child relationship, sibling rivalry, friendship
Wk5 - The Location
Posted on Tuesday, February 4, 2014
The Extraordinary Moments
STORYTELLING – THE LOCATION
STORYTELLING – THE LOCATION
Genres: Sci-fi
The drill begins, turning so fast at the speed of light. But
due to its space atmosphere, no sound could be heard.
Within a short 10 minutes, the drill was successfully
completed.
NASA's rover, RC500 deploy a small moving robot the size of a
mobile device with 4 dimensional wheels from top to bottom with 2
cameras in the front of the device.
As the device enter the Mothership spacecraft, all the
scientist and explorer would expect to see things that we would never expect. Aliens
stuff.
To our surprise, we see machines, power generator, and things
that we would expect to find on the spacecraft of ours; Earth!
The cameras first enter a bed-like looking object that looks
like a bed for the aliens.
Metal sheets that looks like the bed frame.
The device continues to explore the ship and enters a dark
room.
It's a room with many server-like devices. So many that
we believe there are thousands of them standing in line.
We believe that's a Mothership system core.
"If that's the system core, and if we are able to hack
into the system, we would know where they came from and what did they come for!”
Steven suggested to everyone.
The silent research facilities echo the building.
Suddenly a noise can be heard by the microphone of the
device from outside of the dark room.
It sounds like a high-frequency sound. So high that it could
burst our ears.
And suddenly it stopped.
The device starts moving slowly towards the glass-metal door
to check out where the sound came from.
It turn right and the 2 cameras were facing the hallway of
the dark spacecraft with nothing’s there.
Out of the sudden, our screen suddenly display in red background:
“Signal Lost”
We are barely scratching the surface of the mothership but
we lost our ‘eyes’ on the spacecraft
from inside.
All of us are not quite sure if it’s due signal interference
or device was destroyed by something.
NASA decided to command Rover RC500 to release the second,
and also the last pair of ‘eyes’ in
the mothership.
Seconds after RC500 released the device, the rover saw a
black suited creature took out a laser like gun, and engaged us.
“We lost RC500,” one of the team from NASA announced.
Because the device eyes
are linked to RC500, we lost our eyes
on the mothership too.
After all the disappointment, we are back to square one
again.
With only our standard Earth radar and satellite to track
the mothership movement.
Week 5 details
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List 10 widely known movies or tv shows that tell stories based on Location / Setting:- Saw
- Thor
- 2012
- Last Day on Mars
- The Avenger
- Iron Man
- Life of Pi
- King Kong
- Narnia
- Smurf
1. How does a location/setting enhance the story?
2. How does it relate to the key character and his/her motive?
3. How does the location/setting relate to the audience?
4. What makes the location/setting in the story memorable and unique?
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