The Reflective Essay Lecture - 24th January 2020
In the essay discuss how you would animate the script
Demonstrate a range of research
Explore relevant books, films, images, digital resources and critical texts
In your essay:identify the potential challenges of filming your script and how you would overcome them. Discuss how and why you revised and redrafted your creative work.
On your blog show your creative development from start to finish, e.g writing exercises, character profiling, beat sheet, outline etc.
In your essay reflect on the potential challenges of filming your script.
Demonstrate an understanding of screenplay style simple, clear, visual.
Follow the basic rules of screenplay format
Tone and style: your reflective essay
You should write in an appropriate academic tone- citations and bibliographies required
However this is a reflective essay, can use first person and write about your own experiences as relevant to your creative process.
The reflective essay: 1000 words
Don’t explain Jekyll and Hyde
Don’t explain the task
Explain how your screenplay was inspired by the set text - themes ,transformation, names and characters, genre and particular lines incidents , images from the book.
Discuss your writing process- reflect on your journey from the first idea to the finished script- introduce evidence of wider research.-
Influences :
Peaky blinders
America in the 1920s
The godfather
Al Capone and the mafia
The valentines day massacre
Tarantino
Sam Mendes
The wolf of wall street - Jordan Belfort
The construction in New York in the 1920s
The sopranos
Legend
The cray twins
3. Discuss how you would film your screenplay. Eg:
Animation type - cg
Aesthetic style - Pixar/Dream-works inspired
Choice of materials
Colour pallet - dark, dimly lit , black and white
Soundtrack - typical to the time (1920s swing and jazz music, rat pac)
Lighting - dimly lit
Intended audience- adults and teenagers
Would the script be easy or difficult to film ?
What challenges could you face?
How could your over come them?
The five stages of Tragedy
Christopher booker the seven basic plots (2004) defines the 5 stages of tragedy- sources at end of presentation. Tragedy tends to begin with a temptation
Anticipation stage
Dream stage
Frustration stage
Nightmare stage
Destruction stage