Blog 13

When we first started discussing the Script Frenzy, I was pissed, not going to lie. If anything, I just would have rather written a 100 page story, with little dialogue. But, when we could pick partners, at least I had Gannon to help me write it.

We picked a zombie survival film, and now that it’s done, the script wasn’t actually too bad. If we had more time, I think it could have been real awesome. Honestly, none of the packet helped me. I only did it because you assigned it, otherwise I would have just written the script as it was. The way I write, I never use planning or anything like that. I’m a very impulsive person, so that reflects on my writing. Being by far the longest paper I ever have had to write, it for sure taught me something about myself. It taught me that even though I didn’t get to 100 pages, that getting to 30 was a pretty difficult task.

It takes effort to complete, unlike 90% of the writing assignments I have completed throughout my high school career. Writing luckily comes easy to me, so I never really had to try on 2 page essays in English class, but I did like how this assignment challenged anything I’ve ever attempted before.

 My script got to about 32 pages, but I still think I managed my time well. Because I went to Poland for 10 days, I missed a lot of class time. Of course, there were times in class where I didn’t get my work done, but I made up for it by focusing and getting up to 5 pages a day done. The strength of my script would most likely be the realism I put into it.

The main characters are teenagers, so they do things other teens would do, like swear, drugs, etc. even in the zombie apocalypse that is destroying their world. A weakness would be the lack of detail at certain points, where I felt rushed to complete the script. Some of the scenes are visibly rushed. But other than that, I don’t really see a weakness, not to sound cocky or anything.

 If I had more time on this script, I would finish it. It would have more detail, and more importantly, this movie would become famous. I and Gannon could have made billions on this thing, it’s that good. Ha-ha I’m just kidding, but I did have a lot of fun writing this thing.

Blog 12

I think that in this scene in my script, there are many strengths. Because it is so early on in the script, the characters are still sort of being introduced. I liked how me and Gannon introduced Snax, the chubby kid that joins our survival crew. We put him in the back of an ice cream truck. Luther and Titus, looking for another vehicle to travel with, stumble upon Snax while he's eating ice cream in the back of the truck. I also like how we made Snax such a jolly character.

A weakness of the scene could be that it is a bit rushed. At the time, I wasn't sure if we still needed 100 pages, and we only had a few weeks left. I sort of crunched the time that Snax was met, the supplies were gathered, and the crew headed out to Topeka. I think that if I had more time to write, I could have expanded on the details of the scene.

Like I said, I would improve the script by adding more detail to the activities the charcters do. I would have planned out how Starr and Luther wanted to kill Titus and Celtix, made more characters to join the overall survival group, and added a few more twists then I originally had. Overall, if more time was accessible, me and Gannon could have made this a billion dollar script.