Tying It All Together
“The difficult thing is always to find the center of the spiral: the narrative anchor that is strong enough to…
Continue readingImages in context
Autopsy Report is certainly composed of visual images and language; it even starts with an image (“chests of drowned men,…
Continue readingStrategic Sound
“We use music, but we also use sound to score our stories.” For me, all the articles about utilizing…
Continue readingWriting For Sound = Dialogue? Theater? Scriptwriting?
I think I’m gunna need some practice writing (and performing) for sound…And I’m a little nervous about my audio script…
Continue readingCasting Call for Expressive Narrator
“A quirky voice, some music, a few sounds, a spoken text” This is the “improbable formula” Porter describes for the…
Continue readingFake or Real
This week, I was most interested in the breaks and structure of the essays and how they framed a story…
Continue readingA Mammoth-sized Flea
“Freely, effortlessly, thought and feeling move in these consummate works of art, hither and thither between the essay’s three poles-…
Continue readingLarge Themes through Personal Eyes
The essays from the “Essayists on the Essay” augmented the characteristics that we discussed in our previous class. Smith reminds…
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