Here’s a blurry copy of my Book 2: Chapters 1&2 notes:

It’s all chicken scratch and involves things that ended up not being important. 

As the person who does the re-cap at the beginning of each episode, the absolute minimum notes I take on an episode is a scene-by-scene description of what’s happening. This is something that I’ve picked up from Screenwriting school – reverse engineering a structure. 

Something like the Air Ball race in the Book Two premiere would be something like:

“Air Temple Island – Korra abuses Avatar power w/AirKids (immaturity) Tenzin announces trip to air temples (immaturity react)”

There you have the main setting, the main characters and a loose idea of what the purpose of the scene was (Korra has the Avatar state but not maturity and Tenzin knows, is still trying to train her). 

Granted, it’s hard to do that AND focus on all the little things, so occasionally I forgo the motivation stuff until I can do a speedy re-watch right before we podcast.

For that, Nick.com and iTunes have been great so far. 

HOWEVER – when reviewing a film or play or anything where I have to watch in the dark, I don’t take notes. I know Patches does, but I do not. For that, I take it more like I used to take lectures at school: if the idea stimulates me enough to remember it, it must have been important. : )

-Da7e-