Post 7: Creating Your Own Script.

In class we worked on how to create good short film ideas. The first thing we did was as a starter we went round the class and each one of us told our other class members about what we did last night. We each had a minute to do this. We had to continuously talk about our night and consider what to leave out and relate it to narrative.

We then watched a short film called Signs. The film was a love story about a guy who was struggling to fit into a new environment and suddenly meets a girl in a office next to his and communicates by using signs. When we watched the film through and paused it at significant events and discussed possible outcomes and if we felt the short film was good.

We identified as a class that each short film needs the following:

- A World

- A Character

- A Problem

- A Want

- A Need

- An Obligation










From watching the short film "Signs" this is what we identified about the main character:

This is some of the key words we came up with to describe him:

- Dry
- Shy
- Bombarded
- Scared
- Need

The Want: To be love - This is shown when he shows interest into the woman in the office block next to him an starts communicating via Signs.

The Obligation - Go to work, sleep, Parent Expectations - This is shown when they show his day to day life of getting up going to work and getting phone messages of his parents who are keeping up on him.