I was pretty excited to take this class and rightfully so. I guess, as an aspiring screenwriter, I better have been. I think that I got the most benefit out of the Weston material, or anything that had to do with acting in general. Of all aspects that make up a film, acting is the part I know the least about, mainly because it freaks me out. I guess seeing the breakdowns happen in class shed some light on the whole process for me, and I'm grateful for that.
Reading a lot of very different screenplays was great. I think the worst thing a teacher could do in a class like this is to have us read ten scripts that are all similar in content, tone or style. It's nice to read stuff that you wouldn't ever normally read.
Will I watch movies, differently? Not conciouslly. Will I write differently? Probably, whether I like it or not. What I will do is scrutinize the acting more. Script analysis has turned me into a damn actor scrutinizer.
Discussion Questions:
1. If a tree fell in the forest, with no one around, would Sternberg have a twenty page paper on the step by step process?
2. What script, not already in the class, is an absolute must for the future?
- Jon Perez
4 comments:
1. Twenty pages? Please. That would barely cover the "Ways to Introduce Your Tree in the Screenplay- Subtext, Description and Reveal Through Content. Part I."
2. Through a Glass Darkly. Though I think that was in McKee.
I think a must read script would be Casablanca. I think its supposed to be the best screenplay ever written after all.
I think this class needs one recent script. I suggested Superbad, The Mist, There Will Be Blood, or No Country...
Also Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, Fight Club, or some Miley Cyrus Mopvie would be pretty sweet.
There Will be Blood would be a good one, but I think a script to read would have to be The Royal Tenenbaums, its such a fun film to watch, I cant imagine the script being any different.
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