Time Action Outcome
9.30-10.00 Listen: Rolling Thunder (Seeing Ear Theatre)
Analyse: Plot Structure Sci-fi begins with this, a strange setting, a curious twist.
A protagonist, a worthy antagonist - Human condition is revealed – both strengths and weakness and potentiality exists therein
10.00-12.00 Watch: Bladerunner
Discuss Bladerunner Philip K. Dick – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The 3 things human beings cannot do – what are they and how does sci-fi make it “possible”?
12.00 – 1.00
Read: 15 minutes (the story)
Ben Bova on Sci Fi Writing Analyse 15 minutes in terms of character, emotional conflict, guilt vs duty, plot, two subplots of water and the murder of the girl cosmonaut.
1.00-2.00 LUNCH
2.00-3.00 Discussion on Quad by Samuel Beckett.
Watch Quad as performance.
Examples of Flash Fiction and how to use flash fiction to write short, powerful sci-fi stories. Is this sci-fi?
Science and fiction.
Flash fiction.
Assignment Begin final project: Can be:
1. A short story
2. A series of photographs that are “sci-fi”
3. A sci-fi soundscape
4. A short sci-fi animation
5. A sci-fi film using found footage
6. An illustrated sci-fi story
7. A series of illustrations of a sci-fi story you like
8. A set of three highly defined book covers for a sci-fi novel you like
9. Any other suggestions
Facilitators Avy, A V Koshy
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