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Introducing The Black Flamingo
Dean describes his novel in verse, The Black Flamingo.
  1. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  2. Introduction
    04:05
    Introduction
  3. Genre
    08:41
    Genre
  4. The World
    05:53
    The World
  5. Drawing out the secret character
    05:00
    Drawing out the secret character
  6. Character and story
    08:16
    Character and story
  7. Stuff
    07:22
    Stuff
  8. Obstacles
    04:05
    Obstacles
  9. Choices
    10:01
    Choices
  10. Summary
    01:58
    Summary
  11. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  12. Our Tower reading
    06:12
    Our Tower reading
  13. Where monsters come from
    03:38
    Where monsters come from
  14. Storyboard
    03:26
    Storyboard
  15. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
  16. Sport brings us together
    02:36
    Sport brings us together
  17. We are all storytellers
    05:27
    We are all storytellers
  18. About Our Tower
    04:05
    About Our Tower
  19. Phil’s presentation
    21:56
    Phil’s presentation
  20. Questions from schools
    05:22
    Questions from schools
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