Here is my attempt of the first minute of Cracker Bag (Ivin 2003): EXT. BACKYARD – DAY Eddie fills a can with soil and crushes it flat with her foot. INT. WAREHOUSE – DAY She cycles into a warehouse and walks over to a scale. She place a large sack onto the scale and a MAN […]
Read more "It’s A Cracker"To find out what I’ve written so far, see this post about what I got. Today, we had our work-in-progress presentations with guest panelists, Smiljana Glisovic and Dylan Murphy to give us feedback. While they thought my concept was good, the one specific feedback I got, and which they both shared, is how can I […]
Read more "This Is Where I’m At"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"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?"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"