The writing process is quite the
hurdle in filmmaking. As far as my
foundations of story class goes, it has not been easy to distinguish the
different principles we studied.
For the most part, they all seem lumped together. It would have been much more successful
if lectures we also available online after class to read and review. When it comes to our group projects we
have been working on, I feel that we have made quite a bit of progress. What I found most useful I suppose
would be learning about the hero’s journey. The hero’s journey is what our group focused on making
right. As much as we made progress
and produced a story my criticism is that I feel that our story is unoriginal
and feel like it has been done over and again. I think there could have been ways for us to make it our own
but that didn’t happen due to another criticism. I truly believe we didn’t work together enough. First, I think more time should have
been allotted in class to work things out as a group, but also we didn’t meet
enough outside of class. This
became difficult because of course we all have multiple classes we are taking
as well as jobs and other activities.
Unfortunately, most of our finished work was done as pairs and groups of
three and via email and our Facebook page.
One
of the main revisions I would like to see going forward is to change our story
up a bit in order to make it a little more original, unique and our own. I also think that names of our
characters need to change because they are a little clichéd. Overall, I don’t think there is very much more I can express
without just harping. The principles’
we have learned have also felt very little and lumped together to me because I
took Short Script I before taking this class which feels like they should definitely
be reversed.
