During our Thursday class, my group (ft. Jamie) went guns a blazin’ into the pre-production ‘production’ stages of STeve’s future Emmy-award winning production, Lord of the Land. Sure – it was humble and set in the glamorous location that is the weird… Continue Reading
Presentation Slides: Pitch Content: LORD OF THE LAND (TV SERIES) PREMISE: Three people (20-somethings??) living in a share house. Two male, one female. Male 1 is son of the landlord, who happens to be his mother. Male 1… Continue Reading
I wrote two scripts. One of them is in traditional formatting. The other is not. The first is a reality script (“but reality TV isn’t scripted! That’s the whole point!”) in the style of Big Brother, and the second… Continue Reading
My group – Bianca, Wei Yun, Dylan, Raph and I – went on a pretty fluid and exciting journey in deciding on the route we would take in order to create a prototype for our final project. As our… Continue Reading
The character exercise completed in class really inspired me to create complex, realistic and really fleshed-out characters in future projects. I realised just how much we stereotype people into their own archetypes based on their appearance, and although this does… Continue Reading
Week 4B’s ‘strictly scripted’ challenge (what I’d call it if ‘Writing For Film’ were a competitive reality show) was a lot of fun to produce. Not only was I placed into a really inspired, engaged and enthusiastic group, I found… Continue Reading
As Jasmine suggested in her email, I completed a bit of a character profiling activity – and kind of fell in love with my two characters. Let’s flesh them out: Lola Lufuit (pronounced Loo-fwee) Age: 38 Female Caucasian Upper Class French… Continue Reading
While quite introductory, I’ve really enjoyed the editorial tasks set over the past week. Although we worked in Premiere for Broadcast Media last year, I never really built a firm understanding of the software’s foundations. Paul mentioned how learning… Continue Reading
As we were playing around with the order of the screenwriting process in class – writing for film/filming for writing and even writing from film/filming from writing – I thought I’d have a play around for myself and scribe a script from… Continue Reading
This week’s class exercises, while quite introductory, set up a premise for the understandings we will adopt throughout the semester. The highly experimental nature of the studio enabled a script/film writing novice such as myself to navigate my own… Continue Reading