Blog 13: Script Reflection

To be honest, when we first started this project, I was very excited about it. I had a good idea and I couldn't wait for it to come alive on the page. Now that it's done, I feel kind of bad about it because I had a lot of pages and then I lost half of them halfway through and lost my motivation as well. This caused me to pretty much stop writing because I was depressed and didn't have any ideas. I did not find the planning workbook to be very helpful in my endeavors as I knew most stuff in it already and it was structured in a way I didn't like. Also, the ridiculous amount of time we spent working on the planning workbook also pretty much exhausted my time limit for still being excited about the script. Probably mostly what I learned when doing this project was that on large projects it's important for me to feel like I can work at my own pace and feel rewarded for getting work done. My final script is like 10 pages because I lost work and gave up halfway through. In that sense I managed my time carelessly but I don't find writing to be a fun or rewarding exercise of creativity when doing it makes me feel frustrated and depressed. I think that pretty much all of my script is strong, good work as I spent a lot of time on what I did write. I am happy with it because I think the dialogue is very strong and it sounds like stuff people would actually say. I also think the description is sufficient to allow the script to come to life but still leave room for imagination. Its main weakness is it's length, as I did not even get to the part where the actual movie starts actually happening. If I had more time in the course, to be honest I would probably write a short story. That was what I was really looking forward to doing, and unfortunately that is not the way that it worked out this time. I might do it on my own time over the summer though :)

Blog 12- Scene Strengths and Weaknesses

After my peer review session, some stuff has come to light about my script. Everyone said I had strong dialogue, which I actually agree with. Some people commented that they liked my action notes as well. I think those are the main strengths of this part of my script. I especially like how I used Britishisms such as "snogging" which makes it seem more realistic that this scene is set in Britain.  The biggest weakness about this scene is probably that it is cliche. The eager man, the grumpy and reluctant woman. I would probably try to make the beginning of my script less cliche if I had the chance to write it again.