Creating our own script:
For the first part of the lesson, our task was to talk about what and how we went about the previous day. This was the only information given which left us with a very broad point as to what we could say. It was interesting to hear how many people would only get up to 30 seconds before they had run out of things to say. We then had explained to us that t
his was due to the way we have been taught to only share information that we deemed relevant and think people would like to hear. This meant that actually 99% of how the entire day was left out and therefore we would run out of things to say with half the time left. The objective of this task was for us to learn exactly what to add, how to present it and to manage time correctly.
For the second part of the lesson we had to start the process of creating a script for a short film that we will be producing. So our first task was to have a class discussion about what sources would serve as a starting point for the film, and where we can find the inspiration from. The conclusion being; watching films that are relevant to the genre and narrative you wish to base a script on is very good as it gives you definite evidence that it the idea works and can be shown, but the issue with using secondary narrative is that it becomes very easy to unintentionally copy the story and this is ‘copy right’. A perfect example of this issue coming in to action is the last lesson we had as we had to watch a short film and analyse the narrative. The problem was that when it came to come up with and individual idea for my script, I found that the only ideas that I could think about were out of the short film ‘signs’.
There are also many other ways in which to gather information which could aid the production of a script. A few of these could be;
- The news
- Real world events
- Plain imagination
- Dreams
- Personal experience
- Memories
There are many more sources of information available, many of which branch off of those listed above.
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