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Project Brief 4

I found the approach of the studio rather different to my previous screenwriting experiences. Instead of finding a voice and personality for characters and working primarily from narrative or dialogue, this studio was about creating a world then bringing characters to life through the limitations and internal logic of that world. I found the concept…

Project Brief 3

http://www.mediafactory.org.au/vera-pavlovich/2017/04/28/feedback-on-my-feedback/ ‎ <Vietnam pp 2 PDF-zz0ndx> Powerpoint shot list Reporting Vietnam..Script PDF-1vmi24i – script I declare that in submitting all work for this assessment I have read, understood and agree to the content and expectations of the assessment declaration. Vietnam.. Development

Feedback on my Feedback

In reflecting on the feedback on my project one thing particularly stood out to me that I found initially quite disheartening. It was a comment that I hadn’t described the world I had chosen to depict. That I hadn’t described the inner logic and rules of that world. How the…

Vietnam.. Development

Tim Bowden photo from the incident in my script. …

PRESENTATIONS

Like our guests I was totally ‘blown away’ by the creative range of my entire class. Their presentations were so well conceived and developed that the time passed unnoticed. This exercise was certainly valuable as an experiment before final assessment. We had an opportunity to try out our presentation styles, use the technology and…

Frozen River a brutal but haunting film.

Frozen River is an uncompromising film about two low-income women struggling for economic survival. The harsh frozen landscape intensifying the pitiless treatment by those around them and reflects the cold determination of the women to improve their lives and those of their children. The only sympathy towards them is shown by the Mohawks on the…

World within a World

‘I suggest that the screenwriter, in each screenplay, constructs a specific universe for specific characters suited to bringing out distinctive storyline elements and thematic threads and discards other ‘real world’ elements that could distract the audience from narrative and thematic comprehension’ I found reflecting on this proposal an important, even critical exercise with the overall setting…

SCRIPT TO SCREEN Pixar’s ‘UP’

Our class exercise today was to view the opening sequence of ‘Pixar’s’ UP and attempt to write the scene ourselves. I learned something about myself in this exercise… just how slowly I write. I struggled to find the words to paint the pictures on the screen. I found a few, and some I thought an…

EMERGENCE

EMERGENCE (start 1st draft synopsis) The highly restricted research laboratory is located in the latest and most advanced buildings on the University campus. Covered in what is publicly believed to be merely round photovoltaic cells which move to collect the sun, those with classified access know the decorative membrane to be loaded with the…

PROJECT BRIEF 2

http://www.mediafactory.org.au/vera-pavlovich/2017/03/25/1-collaboration/ http://www.mediafactory.org.au/vera-pavlovich/2017/03/25/3-creating-worlds/ EMERGENCE I spent ages trying to post this file..in the end it wouldn’t transfer photo pages or script format.. I declare that in submitting all work for this assessment I have read, understood and agree to the content and expectations of the assessment declaration.