SUMMARY
Role
Screenwriter
Intention (SMART Goal)
By March 2nd, as part of my film team, I will explore the screenwriter’s skill pathway by following The Visual Story by Bruce Block and will have created scenes that use contrasted lighting to express the visual story structure of tone over the scenes of our Session 4 project.
PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY
Leader(s) in the Field / Exemplary Work(s)
Stephen McFeely was the screenwriter and producer for multiple big marvel movies including Infinity War, Endgame, The First Avenger, and Captain America: Civil War. His strengths lie in his use of tone. In the scene above the tone of the film is very dark when looking at the lighting, but when you listen to the dialogue, it becomes significantly less serious and more comedic. This styling of dialogue and lighting is scene in a lot of marvel movies and that’s what makes them standout from other superhero films.
Training Source(s)
The Visual Story by Bruce Block
Tone Notes:
- Find a subject to focus on, no movement
- color does not = tone
- watch film in black and white to judge lighting work
- hiding and revealing things
- Communicating with other parts of the team to sculpt a tone
- Controlling tone through the staging of film.
1:34 – Using a pitch deck to communicate a vision creatively to convey tone
Project Timeline
Pre – Production – February 14 – February 23rd
- Brainstorm ideas
- Create storyboard
- Create slideshow and share with all team members
- Write screenplay
- Decide on location and character roles
- Gather/make props, costumes, equipment
Production – February 23rd – February 28th
- Set up shots
- Prepare blocking for each scene
- Film all scenes
- Record all sounds/dialogue and create music
Post Production – February 28th – March 7
- Put all recordings for audio and video in shared Google Drive folder
- Label final shots
- Decide which scenes to keep, get rid of, or re-shoot
- Transfer audio and clips into Premiere Pro
- Put clips in order and make all edits
- Put audio in and sync up to video
- Make all finishing touches
- Export final film
- Add evidence to slideshow
- Present film and slideshow to the class and receive feedback
Proposed Budget
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PRODUCTION – ACTION
The (FILM, SOUND, or GAME Creation)
Skills Commentary
The Film Slideshow (Commentary)
POST-PRODUCTION – REFLECTION
21st Century Skills
Ways of Thinking (Creativity, Innovation, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving)
Ways of Thinking: One of the problems our team faced during this session was how we were going to approach the creation of the film. The original premise of this session was to recreate our film, but with a better visual story structure. Instead of doing that, we decided to create a sequel to the film before, which required significantly more pre-production and creative work, causing us to spend crunch time in production.
Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration)
I think during production, we did a good job at communicating more most of the production. The difficulty of communication was that we had more people than we usually do which tripped us up a bit, but other than that, overall we were quite successful and we were able to communicate ideas well enough that it gave us an excellent film.
Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy)
For this film, I used Celtx to create the script that we used for the film. As well as the Spider-man: No Way Home Script to use as a reference and guide. I also used The Visual Story Book by Bruce Block to learn about tone.
Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career)
This production taught me that working with a lot of people requires a lot more organization and communication.
Reactions to the Final Version
A comment I got from Michelle, was how she “appreciated how you spoke to the audience during the presentation, and how you used arrows and pictures of the shot to show your intention and where it was”
Self-Evaluation of Final Version
By the end of the production and presenting, I feel like as a screenwriter I did my job well while creating the script. Where I didn’t feel like I didn’t do my job was in the tone of the film. Overall I believe we created a creative, emotional and interesting film and I think that our team did an excellent job.
What I Learned and Problems I Solved
What I learned from this film was the difficulty of representing a story structure, while five other roles try to represent their own story structure as well. During this session, we had to deal with a much bigger group of people, requiring us to double up on roles. This caused a communication problem, where one person was manning the role, while the other wasn’t doing much. Eventually we found out a solution later into production after properly communicating.
Grammar and Spelling
Grammarly
Editor
Merja
