Observe the world around you and enhance
your senses and perceptions (smells, sounds, views, etc). Include those in the
treatment you will write later.
OUTSIDE AND INSIDE SAN MINIATO
1)Use what you learnt in chapter
1 in the “Artist’s Way” to know yourself better and deeper
a)Time travel: list 3 old enemies
of your creative self-worth
b)Time travel: select and think
about an horror story from your monster hall of fame
c)Time travel: list 3 old
champions of your creative self-worth
d)Time travel: select and think
about one happy piece of encouragement
e)If you had 5 other lives to
lead, what would you do in each of them? The point of these lives is to have
fun
f)Transform your monsters into
positive elements in your life
g)Take your artist for a walk
inside San Miniato
2)Explore the dark and repressed
side of yourself and use it as an inspiration to write a treatment for a film.
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3)Write a treatment of a film
using San Miniato and the dark and repressed side of yourself
4)Use what you learnt in chapter
1 in the “Artist’s Way”
a)What we are after here is the
healing of old wounds and not the creation of new ones
b)Remember that in order to
recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist
c)Core negatifs (personal and
cultural) keep you scared
d)Creative and positive affirmations
help achieve a sense of safety and hope
SANTA CROCE (FIRST ARTIST DATE) = FILLING THE WELL (OUR ARTISTIC
RESERVOIR)
Answer
the following questions and post them in the blog
http://cinemasummer2013.blogspot.it/
1)Describe
the church paying attention to details and what attracts your attention (power
of observation). What are the images and symbols that attract you inside or
outside the church?
QUOTE. “ART IS BORN IN ATTENTION. ITS MIDWIFE IS DETAIL”
(P. 21)
QUOTE, “ANY REGULAR, REPETITIVE ACTION PRIMES THE WELL”
(P. 22)
2)Describe
the state of mind and feelings/sensations that Santa Croce creates inside you
(experience)
3)Who
is buried here? Why is Santa Croce important?
4)Use
your artistic brain (our inventor our child, our creative and holistic brain,
our sensory brain,…) and not the logic brain that perceives the world according
to known categories and…
a)write
a treatment for a short story that takes place in Santa Croce
b)use
a famous Florentine citizen
c)choose
a specific genre and explain why did you choose it
d)Think
magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty while you are writing
