Creative How-To Guides
The Creative How-To Guides are a series of short documents that are designed to provide the students with guidance about creating stories inside of various media formats.
Creating a Short Documentary
Wikipedia defines documentary films as “a broad category of non-fiction motion pictures intended to document some aspect of…
Creating a Radio Story
Creating a radio drama is a lot like making a movie except for one major difference …it’s all sound! Your tools are limited to dialogue, music, sound…
Creative Brainstorming Techniques
More than half the fun of writing and producing a story is brainstorming that story. At the very start…
Creating a Commercial/PSA
Commercials are designed to accomplish two things:
1) Communicate knowledge about a product — could be a car, shampoo, a law firm, or a person…
1) Communicate knowledge about a product — could be a car, shampoo, a law firm, or a person…
Six Principles Of Documentary Filmmaking
Principals of documentary filmmaking include Expository Mode, Participatory Mode, and Poetic Mode. Examples of these modes…
Building Characters
To build a fictional character, you will need to know a) their backstory and b) their future story.