Going into the studio to talk about my screenplay, and to be filmed while doing so, was nerve-wracking. I find that I’m usually a pretty easy-going person and I try very hard to adapt to whatever comes at me, but I was still nervous. That’s largely because I wasn’t entirely sure how to frame my little speech. I had never done something like this before. Never in my life had I ever shared something that I put a lot of time and thought and personal value into, especially not with so many people at once. And certainly not on camera, which added a whole other level to this process because I fear I may have a mild case of camera shyness. In fact, at the beginning especially I had a rather difficult time getting into my presentation because I wasn’t sure where to start or how it would go, even with my outline in front of me.
That being said, however, I was actually pretty relieved with how the assignment went. I was nervous–perhaps terrified– and I felt that I kept stuttering, tripping over my words, and getting caught in loops going back to the same thing again and again or skipping around to different places in the story. I also have a lot to work on in the realm of learning to efficiently present my screenplay, as well as when it comes to choosing which parts are most significant to include in a pitch. But besides that, I actually surprised myself with how much I enjoyed talking about my screenplay. I felt good about expressing a lot of my ideas–even if they were a bit messy in delivery– and about going through the main points of my whole screenplay. On top of that, too, I really just had a lot of fun with it. I love writing and reading the fantasy genre, so the screenplay project this semester turned out to be enjoyable for me, and I felt like bringing it to somewhat of a close with this Film about Films was a very fun way to express my feelings and ideas about the screenplay as a whole.
Going into filming for this project, I felt very confident in my ability to speak confidently, but I was definitely unsure on whether or not I would be able to get across my intentions and story as I saw it. While I have never had to pitch a project like this before, I have a lot of experience in explaining topics in group discussions in classes and am often times the designated speaker in a group. I was most definitely intimidated by the set however, as despite all my experience in semi-professional yapping, I have never done so in a big white box where the topic was solely my creation and not a response to a discussion, or a report on an outside source. In order to remedy these slight fears I mostly read off a list of talking points and a partial script to keep me on topic and make sure I got across what I needed to, and I definitely feel this was the right decision. I feel very confident and happy with my performance, I cant yet give my feelings on the results as I have not seen the video and will most likely be much more critical. I do think I could have expanded more on some scenes, and listed some of my inspirations and ideas I had going into my screenplay, but I wanted to keep it somewhat brief and straight to the point which I feel I accomplished well.
For me, it was interesting to just see how far I could riff off of my thoughts for what I saw as my vision of the movie. For most of it, I wan’t really going on a write down script, I was just sort of using my head to play the scenes out and then to translate them into words. It wasn’t really too hard for me to do it either, as I focused more on what I thought of the film and since I knew what it looked like, I could just talk about it. It was cool though to see everyone’s reactions to the ending and certain plot points, with the ending being a pretty bitter sweet sort of thing. This idea of pulling attention as it is put was cool to see in action, knowing that a larger group of people got to hear my story and allowed them to try visualizing it themselves in their own head. I think getting the story out into words also helps with actually visualizing the story from the creators perspective. I spend a lot of time actually saying out loud my screenplay, and even act it out it some rudimentary way. While for one, it is just plain fun to do, it also helps me to see how the actors would be moving and to feel how natural the dialogue sounds. All in all, I think the studio experience was fun and engaging, and let me truly share one of my passions.
My time I’m the studio was good. I expected to get most of my points across while not spilling the end of my story. It’s a big twist and I didn’t know if I wanted to reveal it in that part just because I thought it’d be nice to save. It felt pretty good to pull focus on each individual act and speak on how tn egg correlate as well as influence the overarching theme of my story. I went really deep into act 1 because I already wrote it, but I think I did a pretty good job of adding some key details that explain the transition from act 1 to act 2 and my time skip to really focus on the lives of my protagonist and antagonist. It also streamlined well into my transition into act 3 as well so I’m pretty confident in that.
4 thoughts on “JOURNAL # 22”
Going into the studio to talk about my screenplay, and to be filmed while doing so, was nerve-wracking. I find that I’m usually a pretty easy-going person and I try very hard to adapt to whatever comes at me, but I was still nervous. That’s largely because I wasn’t entirely sure how to frame my little speech. I had never done something like this before. Never in my life had I ever shared something that I put a lot of time and thought and personal value into, especially not with so many people at once. And certainly not on camera, which added a whole other level to this process because I fear I may have a mild case of camera shyness. In fact, at the beginning especially I had a rather difficult time getting into my presentation because I wasn’t sure where to start or how it would go, even with my outline in front of me.
That being said, however, I was actually pretty relieved with how the assignment went. I was nervous–perhaps terrified– and I felt that I kept stuttering, tripping over my words, and getting caught in loops going back to the same thing again and again or skipping around to different places in the story. I also have a lot to work on in the realm of learning to efficiently present my screenplay, as well as when it comes to choosing which parts are most significant to include in a pitch. But besides that, I actually surprised myself with how much I enjoyed talking about my screenplay. I felt good about expressing a lot of my ideas–even if they were a bit messy in delivery– and about going through the main points of my whole screenplay. On top of that, too, I really just had a lot of fun with it. I love writing and reading the fantasy genre, so the screenplay project this semester turned out to be enjoyable for me, and I felt like bringing it to somewhat of a close with this Film about Films was a very fun way to express my feelings and ideas about the screenplay as a whole.
Going into filming for this project, I felt very confident in my ability to speak confidently, but I was definitely unsure on whether or not I would be able to get across my intentions and story as I saw it. While I have never had to pitch a project like this before, I have a lot of experience in explaining topics in group discussions in classes and am often times the designated speaker in a group. I was most definitely intimidated by the set however, as despite all my experience in semi-professional yapping, I have never done so in a big white box where the topic was solely my creation and not a response to a discussion, or a report on an outside source. In order to remedy these slight fears I mostly read off a list of talking points and a partial script to keep me on topic and make sure I got across what I needed to, and I definitely feel this was the right decision. I feel very confident and happy with my performance, I cant yet give my feelings on the results as I have not seen the video and will most likely be much more critical. I do think I could have expanded more on some scenes, and listed some of my inspirations and ideas I had going into my screenplay, but I wanted to keep it somewhat brief and straight to the point which I feel I accomplished well.
For me, it was interesting to just see how far I could riff off of my thoughts for what I saw as my vision of the movie. For most of it, I wan’t really going on a write down script, I was just sort of using my head to play the scenes out and then to translate them into words. It wasn’t really too hard for me to do it either, as I focused more on what I thought of the film and since I knew what it looked like, I could just talk about it. It was cool though to see everyone’s reactions to the ending and certain plot points, with the ending being a pretty bitter sweet sort of thing. This idea of pulling attention as it is put was cool to see in action, knowing that a larger group of people got to hear my story and allowed them to try visualizing it themselves in their own head. I think getting the story out into words also helps with actually visualizing the story from the creators perspective. I spend a lot of time actually saying out loud my screenplay, and even act it out it some rudimentary way. While for one, it is just plain fun to do, it also helps me to see how the actors would be moving and to feel how natural the dialogue sounds. All in all, I think the studio experience was fun and engaging, and let me truly share one of my passions.
My time I’m the studio was good. I expected to get most of my points across while not spilling the end of my story. It’s a big twist and I didn’t know if I wanted to reveal it in that part just because I thought it’d be nice to save. It felt pretty good to pull focus on each individual act and speak on how tn egg correlate as well as influence the overarching theme of my story. I went really deep into act 1 because I already wrote it, but I think I did a pretty good job of adding some key details that explain the transition from act 1 to act 2 and my time skip to really focus on the lives of my protagonist and antagonist. It also streamlined well into my transition into act 3 as well so I’m pretty confident in that.