Oh Script Frenzy….What to say about Script Frenzy. First thing’s first, I have never, EVER, written a 76 page ANYTHING in my entire short little life. I was unbelievably proud of myself, and Lindsay, for all the hard work and effort we put in to creating our script. When our class had originally discussed starting up Script Frenzy, I was a little apprehensive. Writing a 100 page movie in a month? No thank you. I could barely write a 10 page paper without going crazy, writing 100 pages seemed out of my reach!
Now that the project is done, I feel good. Even though I know that the script isn't nearly as great as it could be (we didn't go through and spellcheck anything) I'm still proud that I was able to write as many pages as I did. I felt accomplished, even though I may not have made it to 100 pages I got pretty darn close! The time spent writing the script was very stressful and I was also looking for ways to up the page count. Looking at my printed script and seeing just the magnitude that it is now makes me feel awesome, and proud of my work.
The parts of the Script Frenzy Workbook that I thought was most helpful were the parts where we had to write scenes and the part where we had to plan out what was going to happen during the script. I was able to create scene before we actually starting writing, so I was able to put those scene in without taking up any time writing them. It saved time so that I could write other scenes. I had wrote a version of the opening scene and the climax, both making it into the script with changes, but since I had the idea already down on paper it was easy to manipulate them to fit the current scene they were being placed in.
I don't know if I learned anything new about myself, just reinforcing was I had already known. I take things way out of proportion. If I said I was going to write a 100 page script and the day before it's due it's only at 70, I'll freak out. Working with Lindsay made everything much easier and less stressful. I was constantly worried if we'd finish in time, because though out the time we were writing in class we had discussions on how far other people were and that we were allowed to shorten it if needed. I started having fun with what I was writing and the next thing I new I had just added about 5 pages; it made me feel good about my writing, even if the writing itself wasn't perfect.
Our script is 76 pages! I'm totally proud of that. Our original goal was 100, but once we realized that reaching that goal wasn't possible we modified our script to a manageable number. When we reached that number and were finally done it was such a relief. We didn't handle our time well in the beginning of the project, not taking it as seriously as we should have. We were on the Internet and not writing at all. That didn't last too long mind you, we only had a month to do this! Soon we had a pattern of switching who wrote every day. One day I would write and the next Lindsay would write. The system worked well, because we knew it would be too difficult to collaborate on our writing. The only down side to what we did was that we sometimes had a repeat of a scene, or the same basic scene with some major differences. Once we only had a few days left we assigned page numbers to what we had to write each night in order to complete our script. It worked, but it was super stressful during that time. We were able to finish our script within one month, though we could have taken some stress off ourselves if we had been more focused in the beginning.
I'm proud of the entire script!! The part I'm most proud of would have to be the adventures Oliver and Jack embarked on and writing about the interesting people they met. They were stuck in scenarios that were challenging for them and met some pretty strange people; that was fun to write about. I'm really proud of the entire script, from beginning to end. Some parts moved much quicker than others-the end-but overall the work and effort put into finishing the script was great.
The places that need improvement in the script is the ending. It moved fast. We spent so much time building up to the climax that when we reached it we had to write it fast and move on. We got to the climax late in the month so we didn't have much time to write the ending. I think in general our ending is good and follows what we had planned out well, but we don't have all the description we had in the beginning of the story.
If we had more time to work on our script, we would go through it with a fine tooth comb and fix any errors we found. We would focus our time on cleaning up parts that are repeated or seem messy and make sure the story has a nice flow, something that you can follow easily without any confusion. Parts of our script were slightly repeated, so we would go back and take those repeats out while adding in new information that got left behind.
Overall I enjoyed writing my script and was able to have a fun time while doing it. The plot of our script isn't something that I would normally go for, so being able to write something new was a great experience.
Now that the project is done, I feel good. Even though I know that the script isn't nearly as great as it could be (we didn't go through and spellcheck anything) I'm still proud that I was able to write as many pages as I did. I felt accomplished, even though I may not have made it to 100 pages I got pretty darn close! The time spent writing the script was very stressful and I was also looking for ways to up the page count. Looking at my printed script and seeing just the magnitude that it is now makes me feel awesome, and proud of my work.
The parts of the Script Frenzy Workbook that I thought was most helpful were the parts where we had to write scenes and the part where we had to plan out what was going to happen during the script. I was able to create scene before we actually starting writing, so I was able to put those scene in without taking up any time writing them. It saved time so that I could write other scenes. I had wrote a version of the opening scene and the climax, both making it into the script with changes, but since I had the idea already down on paper it was easy to manipulate them to fit the current scene they were being placed in.
I don't know if I learned anything new about myself, just reinforcing was I had already known. I take things way out of proportion. If I said I was going to write a 100 page script and the day before it's due it's only at 70, I'll freak out. Working with Lindsay made everything much easier and less stressful. I was constantly worried if we'd finish in time, because though out the time we were writing in class we had discussions on how far other people were and that we were allowed to shorten it if needed. I started having fun with what I was writing and the next thing I new I had just added about 5 pages; it made me feel good about my writing, even if the writing itself wasn't perfect.
Our script is 76 pages! I'm totally proud of that. Our original goal was 100, but once we realized that reaching that goal wasn't possible we modified our script to a manageable number. When we reached that number and were finally done it was such a relief. We didn't handle our time well in the beginning of the project, not taking it as seriously as we should have. We were on the Internet and not writing at all. That didn't last too long mind you, we only had a month to do this! Soon we had a pattern of switching who wrote every day. One day I would write and the next Lindsay would write. The system worked well, because we knew it would be too difficult to collaborate on our writing. The only down side to what we did was that we sometimes had a repeat of a scene, or the same basic scene with some major differences. Once we only had a few days left we assigned page numbers to what we had to write each night in order to complete our script. It worked, but it was super stressful during that time. We were able to finish our script within one month, though we could have taken some stress off ourselves if we had been more focused in the beginning.
I'm proud of the entire script!! The part I'm most proud of would have to be the adventures Oliver and Jack embarked on and writing about the interesting people they met. They were stuck in scenarios that were challenging for them and met some pretty strange people; that was fun to write about. I'm really proud of the entire script, from beginning to end. Some parts moved much quicker than others-the end-but overall the work and effort put into finishing the script was great.
The places that need improvement in the script is the ending. It moved fast. We spent so much time building up to the climax that when we reached it we had to write it fast and move on. We got to the climax late in the month so we didn't have much time to write the ending. I think in general our ending is good and follows what we had planned out well, but we don't have all the description we had in the beginning of the story.
If we had more time to work on our script, we would go through it with a fine tooth comb and fix any errors we found. We would focus our time on cleaning up parts that are repeated or seem messy and make sure the story has a nice flow, something that you can follow easily without any confusion. Parts of our script were slightly repeated, so we would go back and take those repeats out while adding in new information that got left behind.
Overall I enjoyed writing my script and was able to have a fun time while doing it. The plot of our script isn't something that I would normally go for, so being able to write something new was a great experience.
