Indigenous Perspective: Filmic Short Stories
These are some great clips I found on the Australian Screen Website.
(Image only. The link is below).
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Jackie-Jackie.In her nervousness, Jinaali (Elaine Crombie) makes a faux pas over the loudspeaker. Her boss Mr Chuck (Roy Billing) has something to say about that, and more!
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Days Like These.Days Like These is a day in the life of Dan, a young Aboriginal man trying to get ahead – but it seems the odds are stacked against him.
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Hush.Ethel (Auriel Andrews) arrives at Mary’s (Marlene Cummins) and they prepare to settle in for a night of naughtiness.
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KwatyeGary (Donnovan Mears) is a young dad awoken by his daughter Aspen (Aspen Beattie), who he immediately sends on an errand.
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Turtle.Jason (Gregory Cross) arrives in town. His Pop (Kelton Pell) is there to greet him and show him around, reminiscing, but Jason is not easily impressed.
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Two Big Boys.Brothers Scott (Michael Tuahine) and Nick (David Page) are at Big Boy Burgers drive-through restaurant. When the car breaks down, it places them in an awkward position. Will they get over it?
Short Stories
What is a short story?
A short story is a story with a fully developed theme, however, it is significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel.
A Short Story usually has one plot, and can be read in one sitting.
Title:
The title will generally indicate what the story is about.
Setting:
This is the time and place of where the story occurs.
Plot:
This is the sequence of events in the short stroy. The reader can identify a beginning, middle and end.
5 Essential parts to the plot:
- Introduction: Introduce the charaters and the setting.
- Rising Action: the events in the story become complicated and the conflict in the story is revealed.
- Climax: This is the most exciting point or the where the most action happens, the reader wonders, "what will happen next?"
- Resolution: things begin to unravel or complications resolve itself.
- Denouement: the outcome of the story.
Theme:
It is the author's underlying meaning or main idea that he is trying to convey.
Characters:
The persons (or characters) in a piece of fiction. One person is central to all the action in a short story. The main character is called the Protagonist. The Antagonist is the opposer to the Protagonist, a simple example is Harry Potter and Lord Voldermort.
Narrator:
The person who is telling the story.
Point of View:
Point of view, or p.o.v., is defined as the angle from which the story is told.
The most common point of view is first person. The main character, or the protagonist, tells the story by using the words “I think, I feel, I saw, I like, we…” (pronouns). The reader sees the story through the main characters eyes, and knows what they think or feel. There are other points of view.
Please click on these icon's read about the different Points of View.
Conflict:
Conflict is essential to plot. Without conflict there is no plot. It is the opposition of forces which ties one incident to another and makes the plot move. Conflict is not merely limited to open arguments, rather it is any form of opposition, struggle or disagreement that faces the main character.
Try watching this excerpt from a short film below. Can you see the conflict or struggle here?
If there is no clip below showing on your ipad, use the "Two Big Boys" video link to the left.
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Did You Know.....?
FOR SALE
Baby shoes.
Never worn.
By Ernest Hemingway
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The World's Shortest Short StoryFor Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn.
By Jamelah Earle on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 09:42 pm
Being A Writer, Postmodernism
The title of this post:
For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn
is a short story allegedly by Ernest Hemingway, perhaps written to settle a bar bet or perhaps written as a challenge, but either way, it's a complete work of fiction. It's a piece of writing I think about a lot, and it's one of my favorites. It's evocative, powerful and clocking in at six words, it proves that it's not necessary to blather on endlessly to tell a good story.
Short stories in music lyrics
Have you thought of looking at the lyrics of music for a short story?
Try looking at the lyricd of "Enter Sand Man", by Metallica. What is the title? Who is telling the story? Who is the main caharacter, (protagonist)? Who is the anagonist? What is the conflict or struggle in the song?
Find a website
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East of the Web - Short FictionWelcome to the fiction short story section at east of the web. Find this month's featured stories above. You can browse the fiction library by subgenre or search it for a title, author or keyword. Clicking on an author's name lists all their stories along with further information and links. Stories can be read online, printed or downloaded for reading offline or on handheld devices
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Write A Letter To a Character Slideshare SampleA sample outline of points to include in a letter to a character in the story
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