“screenplays should be experienced […] as a form of cinema itself” whereby “both, although via opposite polarities, are audio-visual (the screenplay cueing the images and sounds in our mind)” (2009, p. 109). Reference: Dzialo, C 2009, ‘“Frustrated Time” narration: the screenplays of Charlie Kaufman’, in W Buckland (ed.), Puzzle films: complex storytelling in contemporary cinema, […]
Read more "They’re Good Together"Despite having Labour Day and making us miss our Monday class, it wouldn’t really be uni if we still didn’t get homework over the long weekend. This time, we were tasked with finding parts of films, TV shows, etc. that didn’t use dialogue to tell the story. The example that we were given was a […]
Read more "Don’t Say Anything"Carrying on from our Monday class, we continued looking into the short French film, I’ll Catch The Next One. But this time, we were given the opportunity to discuss and create our own continuation of what happens after the woman gets off the train. And so, this post is dedicated to me simply sharing my […]
Read more "To Be Continued"A phrase I’m all too familiar with since I catch public transport too. Anyway… we kickstarted our second week in the Picture This! studio by screening a short French film where a woman is hoodwinked by a man’s skit on the subway. My interpretation of the protagonist, which is the woman, is that it’s pretty […]
Read more "I’ll Wait For The Next One"It’s the start of a new year and we got straight into the work in the Picture This! studio. This first week has been an eye-opener on all the basic knowledge that I lack in regards to screenwriting. Doing the reading on ‘Description’ by Robert McKee and applying that knowledge to the script excerpt of […]
Read more "Time To Picture This"These past two weeks have been pretty hectic with all the filming we’ve been doing and today was our last day. Last week, we had also filmed on the Wednesday and Thursday with 8:30am call times for the crew and we would finish up at around 3pm so they were quite long days and it […]
Read more "Wrap It Up"And in sickness and in health, we got it together for the presentation. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to present with my group, but I still got a chance to see some of it and I was with them prior to the presentation helping to prepare so I knew what was being said. And since we […]
Read more "For Better Or For Worse"Because we really were trying to get it together in time for our pitch presentation. We met up with the writers and discussed the plan for the presentation and tried to flesh out the vision for the web series. But before we get to that, something that would have helped with the ‘vision’ part of […]
Read more "Trying Times"Because who doesn’t love a good table read? And in our case, it was 7 scripts that we had to read through. It was really good to finally see a completed script, though they may not be completely polished, but complete regardless, and to have 7, each with their own direction, was even better. And […]
Read more "Read It Out Loud"A new week calls for a new response from the Screenwriters on the dialogue videos we made in response to the characters that they had written. And what we got back was definitely not the response we were expecting because the questions that the two groups we had to split into as a Media collective […]
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