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 :)