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Inspiration

To ability to produce something completely new and original in the 21st century is almost impossible. For whatever reason, we have developed so quickly we are now turning around in circles trying to figure out where the next exciting new direction is. This applies most acutely to the screenwriting industry where even our teachers have said "Don't try to be original" meaning it'll only be another version...

Action/Reaction List

One of the biggest problems I have with scriptwriting is not the beginning of the film, nor the end but all the stuff that happens in the middle. It's almost like my brain gets so excited about what I'm going to reveal to my audience at the end that all the stuff in the middle gets muddled up. So, to help myself out, I thought...

Character Profile - Matthew Cullen

This is the final character profile for my film's characters:Matthew CullenAge: 19Height: 181cmWeight: 82kgHair Color: Dark BrownHair Length- Short, spikyHair Style: Slightly messy, usually just rubs his head when he gets out of the showerEye Color: BrownSkin Color: Dark TanUsual dress style: jeans and a t-shirt, big fan of Cologne and loves Diesel Fuel For Life. Likes to dress up when he goes out...

Character Profile - Simon Westfield

This is another character profile for one of the male characters in my film:Simon WestfieldAge: 19Height: 178cmWeight: 80kgHair Color: BlondeEye Color: GreenSkin Color: Sandy tanHair length: Short, almost crew cutUsual hair style: little product, slightly roughUsual dress style: jeans and a t-shirt, loves to wear his Reeboks, favorite item of clothing is his Fat Monday jeans.Teeth: Has naturally straight...

Character Profile - Sally Meyers

From school, we were always told it's good habit to write out the backstory to all the characters featured in your film. That way, you know the full reason for their actions and you can justify them much better as well. This is what I came up with for Sally, my film's protagonist:Character Development:Sally MeyersAge: 19Height: 165cmWeight: 65kgHair Color: BlondeEye Color: BlueSkin Color: Fair to...

First Draft

The first draft of any script is always the hardest. For some reason, just getting my ideas down on paper has never been fun and I really struggled initially with this one in terms of actually being genuinely interested in my characters and what happened to them.To counteract this, I spent 2 hours getting to know my characters inside out by writing up their character profiles. I found the experience...

One Liner Revision

Ok, so the reception of my one-liner didn't go as planned. Basically when we got into class, Christine read out all the one-liners which had been posted anonymously (thankgod) and then discussed what was right with them or what was wrong.Mine, unfortunately, fell into the latter category. It seems that judging by my very short one-liner (which I had to admit was much shorter than everyone elses),...

One Liner

So it’s the first tute of the year and already I have doubts about my ability to produce something AMAZING for our first assignment. Given the them of “Seven Deadly Sins”, we have to come up with a short, 5 minute long script based on one of the scripts.One of the biggest tips I have received from writers such as Millard Kaufman, Paul Haggis and Walter Murch is to always write about what you know....

Blue

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RSS In Plain Bullshit

One of this week's main readings was the short animation by Leeler Feeler on the Common Craft website. In it, he defines the forever frustrating RSS or Really Simple Syndication system (no i'm not kidding. that is actually the full name of RSS). He explains that RSS is the way in which YOU can be notified about new stuff that appears on your favourite websites like news.com.au or maxshop.com. Apparently,...

Big Tree

The story is about two boys, an older brother and a younger brother, both of whom have resorted to playing in the backyard in an attempt to fight the boredom they were experiencing inside. After a short game of footy that ends after one of the boys kicks the football into their house tree, the boys attempt to throw one piece of paraphenalia after another up the tree to uproot their ball. With no success,...

Impressions

So far this year, the TV1 course has run slowly enough for new members of the industry can become aquainted with the basic practices and conventions surrounding the field of script-writing.We have looked at everything from a script-to-screen approach to script analysis and vice-versa; to deconstructing eachothers synopsis, some of whom have never written anything in their lives before; to highlighting...

Brainstorming - LUST

Brainstorming: LUSTThe Seven Deadly Sins, written during the 5th century is a similar list of sins requiring expiation or forgiveness.Noun: very strong sexual desire A powerful desire for something – lust for power. Verb: have a very strong sexual desire towards someone – he lusted after me for days Feel a strong desire for something – she was lusting for more ice-creamLust is a craving for sexual...