This document provides instructions for students to analyze chapters 7 and 8 of the novel Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick. Students are asked to choose a quote representing imagery or conflict from the novel and create a Snapchat visual representing the quote. They must then write a reflection or record an audio explanation of their Snapchat, describing the quote used, who participated in the snap, why it represents imagery or conflict, and how Snapchat tools were used. Examples are provided of quotes representing imagery and conflict from the novel. Students are instructed to save their Snaps and email them to their teacher.
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Butler’s
Cinema of the Mind –
Writing vs film
(Not so different)
Writing:
a counter-intuitive exercise
Have trouble writing really good stories?
Teacher: MORE IS MORE! PILE ON ADJECTIVES! ADVERBS! DIALOGUE! MORE!
Too much becomes trypophobic…
Counter-intuitive:
less can be more; show, and not tell
What the heck does that mean????
Do you want your writing to always feel like this?
Be patient.
You’ll know by the end
Film vs literature
Have you ever studied film and writing side by side?
Very much alike!
5 senses
When you read, characters, settings, actions
Become images in your brain
Sight and sound activated just like in cinema
Eg. the waves crash into the rocky cliff
What do you see?
What can you hear?
5 senses
In writing, you experience all the 5 senses
The smell of burnt sugar, vanilla and cocoa permeated the air, as the waiter brought us the chocolate lava cake . I gingerly sliced through the delicate sponge, and there it was, a perfectly molten and viscous chocolate center. I spooned the sensual aphrodisiac and nibbled, savoring every nuance over my tongue; the bittersweet cocoa, the creamy fullness of the milk intertwined beautifully with the Madagascar vanilla…
omnisensual cinema
Reading is just like going to a cinema
= omnisensual cinema
Techniques of literature can be seen as filmic techniques
As writers (you and me) are like film directors
No abstractions
Abstractions in stories
= something that you can't directly experience using your five senses
You know it exists, but you can't see it, smell it, taste it, touch it, or hear
DON’T DO IT
Imagine seeing a film:
a guy looks at a girl. We see his face. He lifts an eyebrow and his lips curl
Then suddenly, the screen goes blank and the word “wryly” or “contempt” appeared.
How would you react????
“WHAAATTTTTTT” with great discomfort
Filmic techniques
Cut
Pan
Long shot to extreme close-up (and everything in between)
Slow motion and fast motion
Montage
Dissolve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvybQ5RpMkc
Cut
An editorial transition signified by the immediate replacement of one shot with another
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAH0MoAv2CI
Long shot to extreme close-up (and everything in between)
Adjust our physical relationship to the image
- Significance? Dramatic Impact?
Long shot: camera shooting from a far distance
Close up: very close to a person.
Extreme close up: you can see the pores on his nose/ cabbage in his teeth
Different distances in shots
Convey info and meaning, shape unfolding drama, illicit emotional responses, communicate character state of mind
Background info, character info, psychological and physical character info
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWX2L-6pUOQ
2’08”
Slow Motion and Fast Motion
People reunite they run FOREVER towards each other across a small space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuifzgehtAI
Slow motion violence
(please DO NOT do whatever the people are doing in this film)
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3. INSTRUCTIONS
• 1. Rodman Philbrick, the author of Freak the Mighty,
uses a lot of imagery to explain conflict in the novel.
Individually, use Snapchat to visually represent at
least 1 example of conflict and/or imagery in the
novel so far. You must choose a quote from the
novel for each example that you represent. Be
creative with your captions and with Snapchat’s
editing tools!
4. REMEMBER…
• Imagery is imaginative language that helps the
reader visualize more realistically what the
author is writing about.
5. REMEMBER…
• Conflict is a struggle between opposed forces.
In fiction, this struggle is usually between two
characters, between a character and society,
between a character and nature or a
character’s internal conflict.
6. INSTRUCTIONS
• 2. Write a reflection about your snap OR
provide a voice-recording explaining your
snap on an IPad. Make sure to explain for
each snap:
7. MAKE SURE TO EXPLAIN:
• What example you are representing (what quote did you
use to guide you?).
• Who participated in your snap (Who acted in your snap,
what props did you use?)
• Why your snap/quote is an example of imagery or
conflict (What does it make you imagine? What type of
conflict is it?)
• How you went about representing this example of
imagery or conflict (How did you use Snapchat’s tools?)
8. IMAGERY EXAMPLE
“Freak is whistling and the
cop car spotlight comes
beaming around the pond
until it settles on us. I’m
blinking because the light is
so bright, and Freak is
making a fuss and waving
his arms and we hear the
metal megaphone sound of
a cop voice ordering us not
to move” (Philbrick 39)
9. REFLECTION
• I, Ms. Contreras participated in this snap.
• My snap/quote is an example of imagery because it
makes the reader imagine what Freak and Max are
experiencing. I imagined what the cop would look like
ordering them not to move through a metal megaphone.
• I went about representing this example of imagery by
using a filter on Snapchat that made me look like a cop
and then drawing a megaphone. I also added the caption
“DON’T MOVE” because that is what Freak and Max hear.
