Script analysis I feel, is bound to be one of those courses to which I will constantly pull information and experience from in any class, or script related undertaking in my future life. I wont lie, before this semester and this class I had no idea how to analyze a scene and even less about breaking it into beats. Because of this class I now find myself preforming that very function when watching movies, I am constantly looking for the value at hand in a particular scene and mentally breaking into its individual action. I wish I was making this up just to sound nice, but I swear its true. So while any film knowledge is good knowledge in my opinion, and since this applies double to the craft of screenwriting, I would have to say that this class has been a tremendous help, and the knowledge I have gained is likly to help me out years and years from now. And plus it turned me on to some new great movies.
- Matthew Ballinger
Discussion Questions
1. Do you think the class should have read and analyzed un-produced scripts like we did for the test so that we wouldn't have a movie to compare the text to?
2. Why does McKee think hes the greatest single authority on scripts that ever lived? Or a better question is do you think that youll ever go back to him later in life when in a script quandary as Charlie Kaufman did?
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