screenwriting | Gianella Rodriguez

A WORK IN PROGRESS

Over the past few weeks, I have come up with and begun to develop the idea for my screenplay that will serve as this studio’s final project. I found that it hasn’t been too hard to come up with possible ideas that allow me to explore audiovisual storytelling but it is hard then making said…

CUEING THE IMAGES AND SOUNDS IN OUR MIND

Drawing on your audiovisual storytelling explorations so far, discuss this quote from cinemal scholar Chris Dzialo: “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…

A SCREENPLAY WAITS FOR THE CAMERA

Prompt: I learned something in the studio that highlighted my previous experience/lack of previous experience with screenwriting… – On a scale from ‘I have never read or touched a screenplay in my life’ to ‘I have decades of screenwriting experience and have won many accolades for said screenwriting’, I’m a solid ‘I know what screenplays look like but…

REFLECTION ON THE STUDIO SO FAR

In Week 1 we had director and screenwriter Ana Kokkinos come in and run a ‘script-to-screen workshop’ during both classes. I found this to be a valuable experience and I was grateful to have the opportunity. I never seriously considered screenwriting as something that I could do but after these classes, I left feeling like I…