Landscape as Character: Craft with Mark Spragg
Characters become alive in the landscape in which we find them. Beyond setting, landscape can create a passage of time. The stillness of predawn, heat of midday, slanting evening light, the waxing or waning of the moon.
Descriptive choices of tempo, rhythm, and tone may mirror a character’s mood, or contrast starkly with their internal experience. The ground on which the characters walk can be symbolic of their journey; paved, overgrown, frost-stiffened, parched, or eroding. A character’s relationship with landscape can be defined by the sentences used: languid or abrupt, consonant- or vowel-driven.
The landscape itself becomes a character beyond metaphor or analogy, visceral, omnipresent and ever changing. Every decision creates a story-scape. Through example and discussion, we’ll explore some of these possibilities in workshop.
Sunday, June 8, 1-3pm
Cost: $30/50/70, please pay what you can.
Characters become alive in the landscape in which we find them. Beyond setting, landscape can create a passage of time. The stillness of predawn, heat of midday, slanting evening light, the waxing or waning of the moon.
Descriptive choices of tempo, rhythm, and tone may mirror a character’s mood, or contrast starkly with their internal experience. The ground on which the characters walk can be symbolic of their journey; paved, overgrown, frost-stiffened, parched, or eroding. A character’s relationship with landscape can be defined by the sentences used: languid or abrupt, consonant- or vowel-driven.
The landscape itself becomes a character beyond metaphor or analogy, visceral, omnipresent and ever changing. Every decision creates a story-scape. Through example and discussion, we’ll explore some of these possibilities in workshop.
Sunday, June 8, 1-3pm
Cost: $30/50/70, please pay what you can.
Characters become alive in the landscape in which we find them. Beyond setting, landscape can create a passage of time. The stillness of predawn, heat of midday, slanting evening light, the waxing or waning of the moon.
Descriptive choices of tempo, rhythm, and tone may mirror a character’s mood, or contrast starkly with their internal experience. The ground on which the characters walk can be symbolic of their journey; paved, overgrown, frost-stiffened, parched, or eroding. A character’s relationship with landscape can be defined by the sentences used: languid or abrupt, consonant- or vowel-driven.
The landscape itself becomes a character beyond metaphor or analogy, visceral, omnipresent and ever changing. Every decision creates a story-scape. Through example and discussion, we’ll explore some of these possibilities in workshop.
Sunday, June 8, 1-3pm
Cost: $30/50/70, please pay what you can.