Schedule 2022

INTRO

Weekly work will cover three main areas described below.

1. Model–Viewing Anime: due by Tues class (Thursday on first week)

You will be viewing video/anime from this schedule weekly—sometimes we have direct URLs, sometimes this requires a Netflix or Amazon Prime Video account–so make sure you have one, or a way to ‘borrow’ one, occasionally.  See Fumiko’s Confession, a 2:22 anime! Here is Fumiko’s Confession Reversed–HA!

2. Story Technique–Readings/Quizzes: due by Tues class (Thursday on first week)

You will also be taking weekly quizzes mainly based on reading from Anatomy of Story, so please make sure you prepare for quizzes and for class. Late assignments not be accepted without medical reason, and not being prepared really degrades the quality of the class for your peers.
Do your best to keep up!

3. Story Practice: due by Sunday 5 pm

You need to come up with your own story!!  You will be doing weekly story exercises–Tasks–in order to slowly build up your story based on the techniques we view, read about, discuss, and share each class. Over time your story may shift, change, and morph–this is common to story development.  By the end of the semester, these practices should add up to a full interactive story.

WEEK 1

Class structure &  tools: website, slack, zoom, texts, videos.

Resources: Overview: Hayao Miyazaki’s style and Princess Mononoke Trailer

Text/Technique:  Anatomy of Story  Intro to Story Time & Place; Princess Mononoke with Truby Techniques

Princess Mononoke Discussion

Story:  Come up with a story idea you will work on this semester

Due Thursday (this week only)

• Come up with a story idea you will work on this semester
• MODEL: Watch Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke OR Princess Mononoke Jap_dubbed;  watching twice is recommended
• TECHNIQUE:
  • Anatomy of Story, John Truby:  Read Ch 1: Story Space/Time;
  • Quiz 1: Story time & Place

Due Sunday

• PRACTICE:
  • Read Princess Mononoke Analysis “Studying the Pros” (skim before watching movie)
  • Task 1 Reflect on Princess Mononoke
  • Continue refining a story idea you will work on this semester

WEEK 2

Some Background:  What is Manga?

Princess Mononoke Analysis “Studying the Pros” & Task 1 review

Story Premise, recognizing models & crafting your story

Due Tues

• MODEL: Rewatch Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke OR Princess Mononoke Jap_dubbed
• TECHNIQUE:
  • Anatomy of Story, John Truby:  Read Ch 2: Premise
  • Quiz 2: Premise

Due Sunday

• PRACTICE:
  • Task 2: Creating your own Premise

WEEK 3

More background: History of Japanese Manga

Story Structure–Seven Steps for Your Name

Structure Template

Solidify Story Idea

Due Tues

• MODEL: Your Name
• TECHNIQUE:
  • Anatomy of Story, John Truby:  Read Ch 3: Story Structure
  • Quiz 3:  Story Structure: Seven Steps

Due Sunday

• PRACTICE:
  • Task 3

WEEK 4

Character & Character Web

Character Development Form

Character Web

How Anime (Your Name) Changed my Life

Due Tues

• MODEL: Your Name
• TECHNIQUE:
  • Anatomy of Story, John Truby:  Read Ch 4: Character
  • Quiz 4: Character

Due Sunday

• PRACTICE:
  • Task 4

WEEK 5

Theme/Moral Argument

Story Tools–Aesop plug-in, Adobe Spark Page

Student Models: Fantasy of Flight, York Pond, Japan Forest

Due Tues

• MODEL: Girl Who Leapt Through Time
• TECHNIQUE:
  • Anatomy of Story, John Truby:  Read Ch 5
  • Quiz 5

Due Sunday

• PRACTICE:
  • Task 5: theme
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WEEK 6

• Story World
• Nausicaa

Due Tues

• MODEL: Nausicaa
• TECHNIQUE:
  • Anatomy of Story, John Truby:  Read Ch 6
  • Quiz 6

Due Sunday

• PRACTICE:
  • Task 6 –>PROJECT 1 due Document/Storyboard 1

WEEK 7 

Fall Break

Story World/Nausicaa

Due Thurs

• MODEL: Rewatch Nausicaa
• TECHNIQUE: Story World

WEEK 8

• Symbols & Metaphors & Allegory
• Intro to Twine
• Twine Guide up to How to Review Your Story
• Twine Chapbook Format Guide

Due Tues

• MODEL: Spirited Away
• TECHNIQUE:
  • Anatomy of Story, John Truby:  Read Ch 7
  • Quiz 7

Due Sunday

• PRACTICE:
  • Task 7: Revise Project 1

Twine stories

• Play We Become What We Behold
• Play 5 Koans

WEEK 9

• Twine Tools
• Plot

Due Tues

• MODEL: Spirited Away;
• Beneath Floes (download, install, play)
• TECHNIQUE:
  • Anatomy of Story, John Truby:  Read Ch 8
  • Quiz 8: Plot

Due Sunday

• PRACTICE:
  • Task 8: Twine 1

LEARN

• Chapbook Guide
• Twine Cookbook–look for Chapbook versions

WEEK 10

• Twine Tools 2
• Scene Weave
• Fair e-Tales

Due Tues

• MODEL: Howl’s Moving Castle Trailer
• TECHNIQUE:
  • Anatomy of Story, John Truby:  Read Ch 9: Scene Weave
  • Quiz 9

Due Sunday

• PRACTICE:
  • Task 9: Twine 2

LEARN

• Chapbook Guide
• Twine Cookbook–look for Chapbook versions

WEEK 11

• Twine Tools 3
• Dialogue & Subtext

Due Tues

• MODEL: 5 Cm per Second
• TECHNIQUE:
  • Anatomy of Story, John Truby:  Read Ch 10 Subtext & Dialogue
  • Quiz 10
  • Twine Chapbook Guide

Due Sunday

• PRACTICE:
  • Task 10: Twine 3

WEEK 12

• Twine 4 Advanced features
• Variable Conditions

Due Tues

• MODEL: Promised Neverland on Netflix
• TECHNIQUE: Twine Chapbook Guide

Due Sunday

• PRACTICE:
  • Task 11–Twine 4

WEEK 13

THANKSGIVING BREAK

• Attack on Titan  on Netflix  Season 1,  25 episodes

WEEK 14

• Stein’s Gate
• Twine: Debugging & publishing

Due Tues

• MODEL:
• Stein’s Gate on Hulu
• TECHNIQUE: Twine Chapbook Guide

Due Sunday

• PRACTICE:
  • Twine 1-4: Project 2

WEEK 15

WEEK 15

Class presentations

Final Projects Due Dec 13

Project 2 should be in a Post

• With a featured image from your story

How to:

• Publish your file in Twine
• Zip it
• Upload to Media Library & get the URL where the zip file lives *you should see this after it uploads); or if you click on the file
• Use that URL in your post
• Add Project 2 category s I can find & grade it.