It’s Week 9 and oddly enough, we get a reading that would have been a little bit more useful to have a couple of weeks ago. But I suppose things happen for a reason. To start off this new week, we read a section of Notes to Screenwriters by Vicki Peterson and Barbara Nicolosi (2015, […]
Read more "Note To Self"It’s Week 8 and I finally have a story that I like – and it has actually stuck with me. For the past few weeks, I have come up with short stories and individual scenes here and there from the writing exercises we’ve had in class and some I’ve written in my own time. But […]
Read more "Let’s See What You Got"It was better than good, it was a great talk. For our one and only class this week, we had a guest lecture with screenwriter, Catherine McMullen. (NB: This blog post may be super vague when discussing certain topics due to privacy reasons.) She was able to provide us with one of her works which […]
Read more "Good Talk"Not literally. Just fictionally. This week, we had yet another writing exercise which was linked to the screenplay analysis we did. Our task was to write a scene – with no dialogue – where Character A learns that (offscreen) Character B has been killed in an accident. Here is what I came up with: INT. […]
Read more "So I Have Some Bad News"Actually, it was just from another country. But anyway, we started the week by reading scripts written by people from another country. To sum up the script that I got, it’s a story about a busker who changes his performance into something other to compete with another street performer, and they get into a physical […]
Read more "From Another World"To say that this class was like any other would just be a lie. We started the class with a speed dating exercise. No, we weren’t actually speed dating, but more like speed presenting our ideas (or rather lack thereof for me). To be completely honest, at the beginning of the class (and even the […]
Read more "We Need To Talk"Nearing the mid-point of the semester, we started the week with a really interesting writing exercise. Taken from The Creative Screenwriter: Exercises to Expand Your Craft, we we’re given a random word, then we had to write 15 words related to that word, pick a word from that list, then write 10 new words related […]
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