This week, we also came back to the montage of Elle and Carl’s relationship from the animated film, Up (2009). But this time, we were given the task of writing one part of this sequence into scene text. I decided to do the first 20 seconds were they have just been married and this is […]
Read more "Up, Up & Away"So this week, we focused our attention to a chapter from Written for the Screen (Sternberg, 1997), and discussed any revelations and confusions we had from this reading. From all the knowledge we’d been absorbing for the past few weeks, the only thing that confused me with this reading was how camera cues were acceptable […]
Read more "Do You Get It?"A new day, a new task. Instead of focusing on both audio and visual storytelling, we began the lesson by focusing on visual storytelling. We had to create a story through a series of photos, using between 5-9 images. My group and I ventured out of the university and centred our story on a crime […]
Read more "Once Upon A Time"It’s week four and we were back to the short French film, I’ll Catch The Next One. We also looked back on all the knowledge we have gained so far in regards to screenwriting and the techniques, structure, etc. that make a good screenplay. And for today’s lesson, we had a chance to apply that […]
Read more "What Do You See?"“screenplays should be experienced […] as a form of cinema itself” whereby “both, although via opposite polarities, are audio-visual (the screenplay cueing the images and sounds in our mind)” (2009, p. 109). Reference: Dzialo, C 2009, ‘“Frustrated Time” narration: the screenplays of Charlie Kaufman’, in W Buckland (ed.), Puzzle films: complex storytelling in contemporary cinema, […]
Read more "They’re Good Together"Despite having Labour Day and making us miss our Monday class, it wouldn’t really be uni if we still didn’t get homework over the long weekend. This time, we were tasked with finding parts of films, TV shows, etc. that didn’t use dialogue to tell the story. The example that we were given was a […]
Read more "Don’t Say Anything"Carrying on from our Monday class, we continued looking into the short French film, I’ll Catch The Next One. But this time, we were given the opportunity to discuss and create our own continuation of what happens after the woman gets off the train. And so, this post is dedicated to me simply sharing my […]
Read more "To Be Continued"A phrase I’m all too familiar with since I catch public transport too. Anyway… we kickstarted our second week in the Picture This! studio by screening a short French film where a woman is hoodwinked by a man’s skit on the subway. My interpretation of the protagonist, which is the woman, is that it’s pretty […]
Read more "I’ll Wait For The Next One"It’s the start of a new year and we got straight into the work in the Picture This! studio. This first week has been an eye-opener on all the basic knowledge that I lack in regards to screenwriting. Doing the reading on ‘Description’ by Robert McKee and applying that knowledge to the script excerpt of […]
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