Inspiration Week-Lesson One

In this lesson we discussed what laid ahead in Unit 3: Production Management Project. As a class we used a short film exercise to help build inspiration for us. The exercise was simple, we all had a individual piece of paper and wrote the first line to the story. Once this line was wrote we folded the paper and passed it to another member of the class who then writes the second line of the story.

The first line was to write a man name and what he does for a living. I wrote:

His name is Bob and he is a DJ.

The second line was to write a woman's name and what she does for a living:

Her name is Rachel. She is a primary school teacher.

The third line is about how the two characters met:

The man spills coffee on the woman at a road crossing and the woman hits him in shock.

The fourth line is dialogue from a character:

He said that he always wanted to know what a woman looked like, she was shocked.

The fifth is about an incident/big event that occurs involving the two people:

All of a sudden there was a car crash in the road in the road next to them.

The sixth line is the conclusion of the story/the ending:

They have children and get married whilst the female is giving birth.

From this exercise I had to make a synopsis of the story that was generated by members of the class who wrote different lines. I wrote this:

Bob is a 35 year old DJ who met Rachel at a gig he was performing at, one day they were drinking coffee and he spilt some on his Rachel who is his girlfriend. The pain was horrendous for Rachel and she decided to go into hospital, the doctor offers medication which eases the pain. Once the burns had healed the couple decided to get married and have children.