Post Horror Assignment #1 Blog Post #2 pt1

One of the workshop activities that stuck with me was the learning and creating the levels of a script by using WriterDuet. In high school i made a short film and it sort of failed due to my inability to not know how to write screenplays and understand all the features these apps have inside them. Thanks to this workshop, i learnt how to tell the difference between characters, actions, scenes, parenthesis’ and even provide transitions into a simple screenplay with hard cuts as well. In the class we thought of anything that came to our mind and were helped with Tim in order to give us specific prompts or ideas in order to make our idea from the top of our head into a new story that haunts us into a scene in which we would then create if it is chosen in our group. I think this exercise was very helpful to gain insight on post horror as we were given the opportunity to expose ourselves to themes that post horror films follow whether this to focus on social aspects that are happening around the real world, racism, psychological or just something completely different and unique. My story followed the themes of grief, isolation and followed the aspects of mental health problems and how the main character goes insane. With the help of my group and their first round of feedback i got ideas flowing all around me in order to make this as scary as possible. My scene included a man on the run from a military force running away with his daughter who was not real and past away in which the man goes underground for hiding, he slowly finds the evils of all the world in a haunted experience where he doesn’t know what is real or not. I think the best part of this activity was hearing what everyone else’s ideas were, everyone on my table was really passionate about their own little project and i thought it was pretty special how quick we can create something and get hooked into it likes its our own world. A moment that gave me a sort of epiphany was understanding the things that other people had, i felt like if they said their piece of work they made before i even made mine, i would’ve been out of this world as it was just really creative and felt professional.

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