My First Group Meeting

 Today in my media studies class, we had our first group meeting! These are essentially meetings with other students in our classroom, where we each discussed our blogging methods and intended story for our film opening, and received criticism. Here are some of the points that I took away from this discussion!

The length of the opening

Immediately, something that I noticed among my peers is that almost everybody (including me) was trying to fit way too many points in the opening. We only have two minutes to get across our point, yet many people are trying to fit in 2-3 conflicts or additional story details. In previous posts, I went very in depth in terms of  characters and story, and although I still want to use as many ideas as possible in my opening, this discussion made me realize that I need to be liberal with time usage. I intend to make a modified script by the end of this week, so I'll sure to incorporate this guideline into the new version.

Blog Structure

I'm pretty proud of my previous posts, but this discussion helped me realize that I can make them so much better! I want to begin to incorporating more forms of media into my pictures, like more pictures or videos to make them more appealing to look at. In addition to this, I also want to use more organizational features (such as bullet points or aligning text to other directions other than the left), which is something I've begun to do in this very post!

Show, Don't Tell

I plan to go much further in dept with this concept in another post, but the most important thing I noticed during my group meeting was a focus on dialogue. Dialogue is never a bad thing, but one of the key components of story-telling is to show, not tell. Instead of outright saying the story detail/conflict, it's best to suggest the idea through other elements, like tone, setting, or mise en scène elements. I have always tried my hardest to utilize this framework in my brainstorming, but this meeting helped me realize just how important it is to follow these rules. 

 (Although the video is very basic, I believe it covers the writing technique very well, and is an interesting watch if you're interested!)

With this, I feel prepared to tackle script writing! I'll see you all then!