Media Five, I Survive(d)

(I wanted the title to rhyme) Anyway, what a semester. What a studio. Having more production knowledge than screenwriting, Picture This has been both insightful and challenging. While I have attempted to write screenplays in the past, it soon dawned upon me that what I knew about screenwriting was nothing more than the formatting of […]

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And Fade Out

It’s my last class of the semester and what better way to end it than sharing your work with the class. We had a table read of everyone’s script, or at least part of it, and it seemed so fitting to finish this studio like this. It was really cool to hear everyone else’s work […]

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What Are You Trying To Say?

Finally. We are in our final week of the semester. And still, we’re pushing out a couple more writing exercises to keep us in the groove of drafting our screenplays. Today, we talked about exposition and how we could say something without saying it at all (i.e. without using dialogue). An interesting point was made […]

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You Got This

So in our second class of this week, we just spent the time working on our drafts and speaking to Stayci for advice on our writing. While I didn’t ask her anything because I honestly didn’t know what to ask – although I definitely do need some feedback on my writing so far – from […]

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Not Far Away Now

As we come close to the end of the semester, we are still keeping the writing strong with another exercise, and this time, looking more into how to create worlds in a screenplay. We were given three options to write about: light, distance or inner perspective through sound. This were all pretty hard to write […]

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It’s A Cracker

Here is my attempt of the first minute of Cracker Bag (Ivin 2003): EXT. BACKYARD – DAY Eddie fills a can with soil and crushes it flat with her foot. INT. WAREHOUSE – DAY She cycles into a warehouse and walks over to a scale. She place a large sack onto the scale and a MAN […]

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Let’s Take A Walk

…to another world. Or at least, the main characters in our stories can do that. With our screenplays in working progress, we had a pretty creative exercise that made us realise what kind of characters we have (or don’t have). We were asked to list as many words as we can describing the ‘world’ of […]

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This Is Where I’m At

To find out what I’ve written so far, see this post about what I got. Today, we had our work-in-progress presentations with guest panelists, Smiljana Glisovic and Dylan Murphy to give us feedback. While they thought my concept was good, the one specific feedback I got, and which they both shared, is how can I […]

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Note To Self

It’s Week 9 and oddly enough, we get a reading that would have been a little bit more useful to have a couple of weeks ago. But I suppose things happen for a reason. To start off this new week, we read a section of Notes to Screenwriters by Vicki Peterson and Barbara Nicolosi (2015, […]

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