Prompts week 2 7-14 September 2015
If you are playing along, each piece of writing should include all four elements.
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| FMS Photo Prompt | Text Type (Alan Peat) | sentence type (Alan Peat) | original story |
| Sunlight | hidden acrostic | Imagine x3 | Jack and the beanstalk | |||||
| help | film script | some, others | The clever little tailor | |||||
| I hear | Naga-uta | Adj, same adj | The boy who cried wolf | |||||
| I see | mini-saga | boys | The Frog Prince | |||||
| I taste | altered characters | double ly ending | The Little Mermaid | |||||
| opposite | Tanka | Irony | The Swan Prince | |||||
| wow! | sci-fi | noun, which, who, where | The Envious Neighbour |
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Text types
Hidden Acrostic: the 'focus' word is spelled out vertically - but not in the first letter or last letter of each line. For example, it could be the second letter; the first letter of the second word or somewhere else.
Film Script: like a play script but should be:
written in 12pt courier, names are in capitals; scene headings, slug line
Slug line has 3 parts: setting, interior (INT) or exterior (EXT) location, time of day (morning, dusk etc)
Film scripts don't tell emotion of character - focus is on what can be seen.
Naga-uta: Japanese for 'long song', has mini-Haikus, each stanza is 5-7, the last is 7-7. Separate chains of naga-uta can go off at a tangent, to add more detail, explain an underlying motive...
mini-saga: tell the story in exactly 50 words
Altered characters: all character traits are inverted. Good becomes evil and vice versa
Tanka: 5 line poetic form, syllable pattern 5-7-5-7-7. The last 2 lines change the tone or pace of the initial tree lines.:
I was a sad girl
My stepmother hated me
So did my sisters
but I was sent to the ball
And now, look! I'm a Princess.
Sci-fi: change magical elements to technological elements.
Film Script: like a play script but should be:
written in 12pt courier, names are in capitals; scene headings, slug line
Slug line has 3 parts: setting, interior (INT) or exterior (EXT) location, time of day (morning, dusk etc)
Film scripts don't tell emotion of character - focus is on what can be seen.
Naga-uta: Japanese for 'long song', has mini-Haikus, each stanza is 5-7, the last is 7-7. Separate chains of naga-uta can go off at a tangent, to add more detail, explain an underlying motive...
mini-saga: tell the story in exactly 50 words
Altered characters: all character traits are inverted. Good becomes evil and vice versa
Tanka: 5 line poetic form, syllable pattern 5-7-5-7-7. The last 2 lines change the tone or pace of the initial tree lines.:
I was a sad girl
My stepmother hated me
So did my sisters
but I was sent to the ball
And now, look! I'm a Princess.
Sci-fi: change magical elements to technological elements.
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