Year 3 - Final project Evaluation
For this project, it was much more stressful to write as I was originally planning to write a six-episode series at about 30 pages (roughly 30 minutes each) per episode. But, I soon realized that I didn't have the writing power of the ability to stretch out this idea to six episodes when had only gotten to the second episode.
So, because of this, I reached out to my university teacher to change to a feature-length script, something that I found much easier to write to as I only to write 60 pages rather than 180.
Strengths:
I feel that my strengths in my writing came from my descriptions of both the characters and the environment, I was able to create a world where the reader could step in and feel like they knew it. I knew from films like Lord of the Rings, that you want a world where the audience could feel as if they belonged in that environment, even if it was their first time watching the film, it's a great first impression on the viewer. My other strength as my character writing, I waned to create a realistic and relatable character in all of them, and, while the story and journey that they all take may not be relating entirely to everyone who watches, I would hope that everyone still connected with each of them in some way, even if it is only small.
Weaknesses:
One of my biggest hurdles to overcome in this project was h struggle of having to work alone and having no one to bounce ideas off of, while I'm not the most... outspoken and collaborative person in our year, even that sense of physically being a room with other people and having the chance to check in with each other wasn't there, and in a way, made the task of writing this script a lot harder than I knew it was already going to be.
There would be days where I would be writing and doing really well, and then the next day, I could have erased it all or changed entire chunks because I didn't like what I had done. It's when you're the only eyes working on your script, looking over the same words over and over, and only wanting to get feedback on a draft when it was perfect to me, which is a tall ask sometimes.
Although in some strange way, perhaps that helped with my writing? Instead of getting frustrated and disappointed that I wasn't working as hard or as fast as I wanted, I would write my anger out into my script, putting the characters through darker moments than I had originally intended.
The Take-Away:
For me, the one thing I've come away from in this unit is my ability in screenwriting. I never thought I would be able to write a full-length screenplay. At the beginning of this, I had so many ideas for short film's or even a documentary about learning how to dance, but of course, Covid struck and shut everything down in the beginning/mid of 2020, and even though we knew we could shoot something for this unit, I didn't want to take the risk that in the end, something could have gone worse and we would end with nothing.
I landed on my script idea because I thought, it's me getting to write about a genre I love, to create the world I want to make, and to design and craft the story. It's what I love about Fantasy, the ability to let your imagination and creativity shine.
This idea was born out of playing Spyro Dawn of the Dragon at home one day during lockdown. After re-watching Game of Thrones and The Witcher, the inital idea I had of Angels vs Demons really took off and turned itself into something I couldn't be more proud of.
‘All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.’ – Gandalf the Grey
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