I enrolled in this course because I enjoy writing and I wish to learn and further improve my overall writing skills. I hope that in this course I will get to discover new ways to convey a story as the quote by Linda Aronson in the studio guide perfectly encapsulates what writing is to me. “…scriptwriting, like all art forms, is always changing and reinventing itself” and because writing is constantly evolving as writers we have to adapt to changes in the craft. By being in the same class as the Creative Writing students, it will give a unique opportunity to interact and learn from people that focus almost exclusively to writing. I can also impart knowledge of the many area of film production with them as one of the aims of the class seems to be to share the knowledge of the various people that specialize in an array of different aspects of film production.

The conventional relationship between screenwriting and film making is typically that the script is done beforehand in order for the production crew to meticulously plan and shoot the desired scenes that will make up the film. But when this is turned on its head the result can be that a story that is conceived of spontaneity and impulse after the film is shot. This allows for more unconventional stories as the audience can then make their own story based on their own interpretation. However, this can also take away the voice of the author since there wouldn’t be a definitive narrative occurring on screen. I think that in this course we will be experimenting and twisting these conventions to get firsthand look at the results of telling a story in this unorthodox manner. I am personally excited to embark on this unconventional approach to narrative as there can be many possibilities that would have remained unexplored.