I chose this course because I have always been interested in writing. It has been something I did well at all throughout school, something that my teachers said I was good at. I have never been confident though. I don’t think I have interesting  ideas, I don’t think I’m a great writer.

I chose this course because I want to get better at writing. I want to do something I enjoy. I want to learn from the creative writing students. I want to learn about the process of scriptwriting, and the process of developing a script into a film.

I read scripts occasionally. I have friends online who are great writers, so I read their work. I read scripts for television pilots, mostly because I love TV. Good scriptwriting is something I envy, something I want to learn more about.

While I attended the studio information session at the end of last semester, I admit that I didn’t really look very far into the studios. I picked this one because I like the sound of it, and because I wanted to write. I imagined that we would work alongside the creative writing students to produce a script or scripts in the first half of the semester, and then in the second half we would develop them into films. I should have know that nothing in the communication school is that simple.

The studio’s aim, to see how writing is woven throughout the film making process, is intriguing. It will be interesting to see how this works, since the students from the two courses will only be together once a week.

I am hoping that at the end of this studio I will have a clear understanding of standard writing and shooting practices for film. I also want to understand how this can be detrimental. I want to have explored how writing and shooting can be done differently, how working in a different way can result in a better outcome. I am also hoping to have improved writing and reflection skills, as well as continuing to work of practical media making skills.

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