To be honest, Screenwriting has always intimidated me a little bit. I don’t particularly know why, but it has. So this lecture explaining some major things about it has helped me feel somewhat more comfortable with it. One of the main points I took away from this lecture was that Screenwriting a story is not like real life. The story is invented and everything within it is invented too – from the work, the characters, the feelings and the structure of how it is told. This completely invented world creates the basis for a story to be told, in which a protagonist is faced with a problem  they need to overcome. This lecture helped me realise that the problems that arise in a screen write have to be something outside the everyday – in order to make everyday activities interesting to an audience. The example used of ‘Seinfield’ helped make it all make sense!