Aim one: flattery. Aim two, something else.

I think this course has a lot of potential for me to grow in my creative skill sets. I think within this course I’ll be able to get a good perspective of the process of script to actually filming and working on preproduction and such. Within high school, I found that a lot of the time I would get impatient with it’s elements, especially storyboarding. Seeing as this course is literally doing all stages of production, I’d like to be able to get some more skills adapting a script to becoming an enjoyable.

I’d also like to get some experience of script writing. I’ve already dabbled in writing a scene, and I have found that fun. I think its an interesting experience forming characters and mannerisms in my mind and trying to adapt that to paper. I think I’d like to learn a lot more about incorporating more filmy techniques into the script. I’ve already found a lot of the shots can be planned, but on the day that can change. I suppose adaptability (I think that could be a word…) is key here. But I’m looking forward to trying to incorporate creative ways to make scripts enjoyable.

Finally, I really would like to get my technical expertise up. Apart from industry jargon, which I’m sure I’ll pick up on by listening to other, more savvy people as they do their thing, I’d like to be able to fine tune my editing ability, my handling of a camera and so on. Basically I’d like to be able to look like I know what I’m doing with equipment. It’s a little thing, but some expertise would go down pretty well in a future job of some sort, whether it be directly related to this or not.

Anyway, I suppose we’ll see how things go.