The document provides notices about changes to student courses and teachers. It also provides information on an upcoming story writing task involving the X-Men character Jean Grey. Key details include: - Several teachers are changing subjects they will be teaching. - An upcoming activity requires students to continue the beginning of a story where Jean Grey walks into a bar and choose where to take the narrative next in a blog post. - The document reviews important storytelling devices like hooks, conflict points, and reveals to help students in their writing task. It discusses using characters to drive the narrative from point to point.

1. Student NoticesCan I please remind and urge you to check student notices please? It’s vital that you take note and notice of stuff affecting you!

2. Your Teachers Are Changing!Working to a Brief will be taken by:

3. Rosie Francis

4. Chris Hallam

5. Jon Laud

6. Concept Art will be taken by:

7. Kelly Vero

8. Gin Rai

9. Computer Games Engines will be taken by:

10. Kelly Vero

11. Gin Rai

12. Seminars will be taken by:

13. Jonny Stenton NOTE: Your timetable has NOT changed!

14. Japanese Word of the Week (16)Tenki wa dou desu ka.[Ten-keewahdoh des-ka]Ii tenkidesu.

15. Aims & ObjectivesAims:Students will explore character devices in writing and storytellingObjectives:All students will be able to identify 3 character devices in separate genreMost students will be able to identify 3 character devices and describe 1 form in detailSome students will be able to identify 3 character devices and describe 2 forms in detail

16. Computer Game Story Development10 May 2010Unit 72 Computer Game Story Development

17. Computer Game Story Development1 Understand storytelling for games2 Be able to produce a story for a game3 Be able to produce game dialogue4 Be able to reflect upon own narrative work.

18. The Story So Far… You tell me….

19. Has it sunk in?

20. Have you started writing?Jean GreyThe Beautiful Subject

21. Film 1

22. Who Is Jean Grey? Age?

23. Status?

24. Backstory

25. Going forwardsJean Grey SpeaksBut how does she sound? Authoritative?

26. Approachable?

27. In control?Activity Write one line of dialogue for the following:A SoldierAn Alien (who speaks English!)A Lawyer

28. Characters Tell Stories In a moment you’ll be set a story writing task for your blog.Before all of that – let’s create a timeline of Jean’s life:In pairs, please use your powers of research to create a brief timeline from 1963 to 2009Include key facts like Phoenix/Phoenix Force

29. Marriage to Scott

30. Significant stories or storylines relating to JeanFilm 2

31. Storytelling Devices… A Slight ReturnStories come in all shapes and sizes – we’ve seen and read a couple already. To get from point A to point Z there are a few devices you could use.

32. The Hook

33. The Shit/Deep Shit Point

34. The RevealTip: Your characters can do this for you!

35. The HookSome stories hook you in straightaway: RPGs are great at this….Mysterious deaths

36. Strange visitors

37. Weird symbolismWhat is the purpose of a hook?

38. Shit PointsSome stories put their protagonists and antagonists under the gun. Some story liners and writers refer to this as the shit or deep shit point !Your father is a very dark lord

39. The character gets so far and his/her target is shot dead

40. Your character accidentally (on purpose) learns about the rouse he/she has been lured intoCan you associate with any of that in gaming or films/TV?

41. The RevealAs with the last slide, sometimes thing are there to test, but often they can be there to draw up all of the loose ends. That’s called a denouement – we’ll talk about that in more detail later…Bad guy revealed

42. Missing gold/treasure found in unlikely place

43. Protagonist has a reason for living once more (barf!)Does it feel familiar?

44. Jean Grey Walks Into A BarBy the ocean there is a bar… They called it Hannah’s Roadhouse once… I don’t know what they call it anymore. I just knew that she’d come and bring that thing with her. That thing that to me, was so precious, so deeply moving that just looking at it would blind me. But I had to have it and I knew that I couldn’t have it if she didn’t show up today…There she was, red hair with a slight orange fleck in the Ocean’s sunrise. She wasn’t old, in fact, she was new, as if reborn, she didn’t see me as she opened the door to the bar. I let her walk, I had no plans. She bought 2 drinks and sat at the bar……..

45. Activity

46. Jean Grey Walks Into A BarNow what?Please blog for next week’s lesson….. Failure to do so equals concern notes…

47. Overview – What Have We Learned?We’ve covered loads of ground and so far have a good foundation to build on.

48. Using 1 character in depth, you can often get a story told relatively quickly.

49. Storytelling has been around for much longer than any of us really know (or could speak)

50. Devices are there to keep your audience interested… USE THEM!Have we met our outcomes?

51. Next WeekThe mighty Gambit and the power of location!