CRWR 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Method Acting, Concept Album, Microsoft Powerpoint
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Bring print outs to use use on camera and also song to play. Can use sheets of paper to show on projector. Listen to the song the battle of duck lake by portico on canvas. Autobiographical lyrics - strengths: (some notes online about this) Autobiographical challenges: the writer feels connected to the subject matter - sense of authority. Writer feels a sense of authority - you"re writing about what you know. Listener feels intimacy with lyricist, like they know something about them lyrics is too personal for listeners to relate to or Lyrics tend to mine predictable subject matter - love and heartache, for instance - in a predictable way. If you"re constantly drawing from your own personal life to write confessional lyrics eventually you"re going to. Run out of things to write about yourself. Write about characters in books and their situation. Think about general situations in life in which applies to many people and write about it.
