Sumários
Showing v Telling
5 Abril 2017, 10:00 • David Alan Prescott
Explanation of the two techniques. How "showing" information is closer to 'real life' than giving information to the reader/viewer. Examples from What we Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver.
Witness
3 Abril 2017, 10:00 • David Alan Prescott
Showing of and analysis of second part of film Witness.
Witness, dir Peter Weir
29 Março 2017, 10:00 • David Alan Prescott
Showing of and first analysis of the film Witness, by Peter Weir.
A Nurse's Bedsit
27 Março 2017, 10:00 • David Alan Prescott
Exercise in describing a nurse's bedsit so as we can determine who she is. The examples to be described in their absence were a) 22 years old, blond, female, pretty, flighty, boyfriend back home, bad with money, likes a good time, or b) 39 years old, widow, black, children back in Angola, saves all her money, misses her husband. Both were proud of being nurses.
Transposition
22 Março 2017, 10:00 • David Alan Prescott
Analysis of difficulties involved in adapting a piece of prose to the language of the screenplay. (Taken from the anthology)