Final Blog

Personally, I feel that a class in script analysis is a very useful class to several majors. Just the ability to analyze a scene by itself is inherently important to certain professions, let alone analyzing an entire script or storyline. This kind of analysis can prove invaluable to those trying to get into the professions of video and film creation, and the focus of the script provides a good grounding basis for such intentions.

I already felt that I was pretty capable in analysis of a storyline or a scene, but analyzing a script takes a few more aspects into mind than the typical novel or graphic storyline. I found the technical aspect, provided by the directions for the camera and other technical features of the filming/video creation process, to throw me off quite a bit while reading a script, primarily because I am much more used to novelizations than screenplays. It was interesting how these changes can change the way the story is experienced, and how different authors used differing amounts of technical commentary. These differences in the technical side of the script really got me thinking about how I would shoot my own movie, given a script. How specific would I want my script, my guide, to be? How faithful would I be to that guide? How would I feel different, when actually shooting/creating the video, about the technical design as opposed to when I was writing or reading the script?

However, for me, it all comes back to the story, and how I see it presented. Although scripts are a good method of creating a malleable view, which is perfect for turning into a film or video, for me, personally, I prefer the novel to the script. However, this is just a personal preference of my own, and not really any sort of condemnation on the course or its usefulnes to others. Overall, Script Analysis is a course with a lot of potential for those who are planning on going into fields where they deal with the envisioning of a story onto a visual medium.

-Josh Milstein