Assignment (2): Development of a Story Idea Based on an Existing Idea

Value: 20 out of 100 course points

Assignment Due: Oct 5, Beginning of Class

Analyze an existing story or script.    Create the elements necessary to bring this story to life.    The story may be an adaptation of an existing screenplay, story, song, or other existing material that has not already been made into a film.

The purpose of this assignment is to introduce students to the process of adaptation while allowing them to focus on the visual development portion of the concept development process.

Resources:

Story Corp Website

Taro Alexander

Miss Devine

Assignment (2) Requirements:

• Brief character descriptions and basic designs
   
• Setting / environment / prop descriptions and basic designs
   
• Brief Plot Outline / Synopsis
  Prepare a brief plot outline of the piece and a concise description of major plot events, including:
       1. Conflict and/or drive motivation
       2. Story structure - if classical design - including inciting incident, progressive complications, crisis, climax, resolution, value changes in protagonist. If non-classical structure, describe motivation for structure, narrative and stylistic elements which unify the story.
  
  
• Visual Development Page(s):
  For the purposes of this assignment, compile the visuals to support your analysis the piece and it's elements.
       1. Inspirational reference materials
       2. Conceptual studies of primary characters, settings, and props
       3. Beat boards - visual representation of significant story beats

 

Students will prepare a 5 minute presentation of their story analysis and materials.

Visual materials must be formatted for effective display within a screen resolution of 1024X768 and presented in a slideshow formatted.

Suggested delivery methods include:

• Adobe Acrobat
• Linked web pages
• Microsoft Powerpoint

Students are responsible for ensuring that presentations function properly by the due date.

Grading Criteria for Assignment (2):

Handing in Assignment (2):

Students will place their projects in the course drop box for Assignment (2). The file must be named using the following convention:

   Students first initial-last name_assign1.file extension

   For example: Jane Doe would hand in an Adobe Acrobat file as: j-doe_assign1.pdf