And Fade Out

It’s my last class of the semester and what better way to end it than sharing your work with the class. We had a table read of everyone’s script, or at least part of it, and it seemed so fitting to finish this studio like this. It was really cool to hear everyone else’s work […]

Read more "And Fade Out"

What Are You Trying To Say?

Finally. We are in our final week of the semester. And still, we’re pushing out a couple more writing exercises to keep us in the groove of drafting our screenplays. Today, we talked about exposition and how we could say something without saying it at all (i.e. without using dialogue). An interesting point was made […]

Read more "What Are You Trying To Say?"

You Got This

So in our second class of this week, we just spent the time working on our drafts and speaking to Stayci for advice on our writing. While I didn’t ask her anything because I honestly didn’t know what to ask – although I definitely do need some feedback on my writing so far – from […]

Read more "You Got This"

Not Far Away Now

As we come close to the end of the semester, we are still keeping the writing strong with another exercise, and this time, looking more into how to create worlds in a screenplay. We were given three options to write about: light, distance or inner perspective through sound. This were all pretty hard to write […]

Read more "Not Far Away Now"

Let’s Take A Walk

…to another world. Or at least, the main characters in our stories can do that. With our screenplays in working progress, we had a pretty creative exercise that made us realise what kind of characters we have (or don’t have). We were asked to list as many words as we can describing the ‘world’ of […]

Read more "Let’s Take A Walk"

This Is Where I’m At

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"

Let’s See What You Got

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"

So I Have Some Bad News

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"

We Need To Talk

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"

Are You Write?

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 […]

Read more "Are You Write?"