Film – Week 8 – Screenwriting

SUMMARY

This weeks work felt nice, easy to do. I left this assignment to be the last one I did because it was probably going to be the easiest one.

(TUTORIALS)

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

Image from sneakonthelot.com/my-courses/

I learned about the history of the camera, the process of filming, and the different roles people have in completing a film. I was surprised by the quality of the old films in the course, like the “A trip to the moon” the film quality wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

Homework

People

OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)

  • I want to go outside but I have homework to do first
  • I want to ollie up a curb on a skateboard but first I need practice doing ollies
  • I want to make bacon but I have none left to make
  • I want to drive but my parents’ arent home
  • I want to drop in at Yauger Skate Park but I can’t go anywhere right now
  • I want covid to be over but I can’t do anything about it but wear a mask

STUDIO (FILMING)

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

  • This week I started grinding on work right away, so I didn’t have to do the rest of my work on Thursday and Friday

Developing Quality Workflow

What is Workflow?

Image Creative Workflow from Behance.com, https://www.behance.net/gallery/27919515/Creative-workflow-GIF

Work•flow /ˈwərkflō/

“The sequence of industrial, administrative, or other processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion.” – lexico.com

What is a quality workflow?  How do we develop it?  Below are elements of the production cycle that most creative people move through as they create something.  First, we must identify the stages of project production. What is each stage and what are the quality checks for each stage.  Read on and find out!

Stages of Creation Development

Inspiration

How do we find ideas to develop?

  • We use our brains
  • We think
  • How much work you put in measures quality
  • You measure quality

Intention

How do we clarify our specific goal(s) for a project?

  • Things that will help you reach your goal
  • Process of elimination, your ideas
  • What you really want to do
  • You measure quality

Pre-production

How can we brainwrite, brainstorm, storyboard, and plan our ideas at this phase?

  • Computers, imagining, concept art, and drawing scenes
  • discussion with others
  • With detail
  • Your and the people around you, the capability to draw your ideas

Production

How do we communicate with each other and execute our plan for this phase? This is where we actually make the project.

  • Camera, mic, sets, music, production house
  • Filming the scenes, making sets, making the soundtrack
  • The Passion
  • Your team and you

Post-production

How do we communicate with each other and execute our final stages of the project for this phase? This is where we publish the project.

  • WHAT TOOLS SHOULD WE USE?
  • WHAT PROCESS SHOULD WE USE?
  • HOW DO YOU MEASURE QUALITY?
  • WHO MEASURES QUALITY?

Presentation/Performance

How do we share our project with our learning community, advisory members, and the world?

  • Theaters, an audience
  • Trailers, Test screenings, then release
  • If we met our goal or not
  • the audience does

Feedback

How do we conduct a feedback session at the end of the project development cycle?

  • Websites with reviewers and ratings like Rotten Tomatoes
  • Looking and listening to the reviews
  • Audiences positive or negative reviews, Your Goal is met and noticed by others
  • The reviews