The past 4 weeks have seen us undertake a series of writing exercises to further progress existing ideas to help fully realise their narrative potential. Expanding upon the group exercise assigned in Week 2 of creating a narrative out of still frames,  as our class we were tasked with writing screenplays based on the work we had produced. At this point in time I was not as aware of the expectation in screenplay writing to be concise and to the point during the writing process and thus the examples provided below do have faults in their overall design, however in becoming aware of this I have already began to improve my quality of screenwriting and after Week 4’s reviewing the screenplay of Pixar’s animated film Up (specifically the opening sequence), it has become clearer to me as to how to condense the amount of words in a screenplay to the point where only relevant information should be listed, and that all other aesthetic and more subtle nuances should be realised during later stages of production.

This piece pairs well with the first as not only is it a variation of the same exercise but it also suffered from the same issues of overly descriptive visual imagery, while I do believe this is important in establishing the world, procedurally I have not necessarily being doing the wrong thing but moreso doing it at the wrong time of the inception process of the idea, and should be doing it later in development. Descriptive language will clearly be a key part of designing and exploring the worlds we construct in future assignments and it will be good to use these skills in a more relevant area but from what I have learned through these exercises I should focus more on the concise language and singular words that convey more information.

“Less is more”

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