Lecture 8th October

Generating Ideas

In this lecture we discussed When is enough enough?

• Capturing- For me is to think about it in my head for a moment and to write it down, maybe though I should try to draw my idea instead.
• Challenging- Giving ourselves tough problem to solve- CHALLENGE YOURSELF!
• Broadening- The more diverse your knowledge- BOOST YOUR CREATIVITY!
• Surrounding- physical/social environments, more interesting and diverse the things and the people around you, the more interesting your own ideas become.
• Stages- Concept- Basic outline of story
• Treatment/ Proposal
• Screenplay/ Shooting Script
• Concept Task- write down the outline for a recent film that you've seen: The last film I saw was The Invention of Lying (Ricky Gervais) " A comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain".
• Treatment- Scene by scene in present tense of how films unfold, basic actions and plot structures, generally equates to a paragraph for each major dramatic event, not fully developed scenes with dialogue, precise settings or actions, short film treatment might by 2/3 pages long.
• Dramatic event= narrative beat- moves the story on.
• Proposal- is your opportunity to convince a 3rd party that your film is worth making.
• What a proposal should do: Be Clear, Clarify, Convince, Organised, Professional, Imaginative.
• Start with an overview paragraph.
• EPG- electronic programme.
• Next few paragraphs- outline how you expect your story to unfold.
• Brief summary- a bit about you, reasons for doing your story.
• Screenplay- written as it unfolds to an audience.
• Screenplay Elements- 6- Title, Scene headings, Stage directions, Dialogue, Character cues, Personal Direction.

I have also subscribed to Jurgen Wolff, Creative Brainstorming e Letter, June 2008, hopefully this will be helpful.

I took out the Voice and Vision book by George Racz, which I will be looking at over the weekend.

I took out The Film Director's Intuition: Script analysis and rehearsal Techniques by Judith Weston, which I will be looking at over the weekend.

I have also taken out 3 films from the library by Alfred Hitchcock called Psycho, "Marnie" and Family Plot, which I hope to watch in the next week and write about them on here and then get some different ones out as there's about 15 dvds.

I have read through the 3 scripts called Tea, Feel and Train.

Tea: This script I found was very peculiar, I get the understanding that it is about a couple having a disagreement and the woman would not try something different out that the man wanted her to.

Feel: This script I found very hard to understand, it seems to showing a champion who only has till the end of the week to live

Train: I also found this script even harder to get a grip of, to me it sounds like a woman has this man wrapped around her finger and he will do anything and everything for her.

Deborah's Seminar 8th October

In this seminar we were kept in the same groups as before and were given a script called MALac, we sat down as a group and did a brainstorm and this is as far as we got. We came to the conclusion of wanting to film in a basement/cellar, that there are 3 characters- 1 woman and 2 men. We want to show that the woman is a psychotic house-wife who wants revenge, who has lost the plot and been empowered. With the man we want to show one of them looking rough, clothes are ripped, the other man we haven't really discussed. With the MALac being the object we think the woman is proud of it but we haven't discussed what it would be. We are meeting up as a group on monday to discuss more and to sort out the location and characters.

Danny's Seminar 8th October

This seminar was really useful, we went through the brief:

• 2000 words- - + 5%
• Veranda- font 12
• Find companies you want to network with
• Research companies
• File name must be Network_charlottcochrane.doc
• Look at the learning outcomes
• Introduction - Conclusion is in the word count, anything before or after does not count in the word count
• Abstract- short to the point
• Map of my network- memory map- spider diagram
• Appendices- everything you'e used
• Harvard Referencing