5/10

Memorable Scenes

1. When Arash takes some of the pills he’s selling at a nightclub on Halloween
2. When Arash steals the cat at the beginning

7/10

Memorable Scenes

1. When Bonnie and Clyde pick up C.W. Moss from his home/garage and convinced him to steal from his father.
2. The ending, where Bonnie and Clyde are shot to death after being betrayed by Malcolm.

8/10

Memorable Scenes

1. The conversation with Theo’s cousin – Guernica painting
2. The military holding fire as Key and Theo walk through with the baby

Since the last meeting, we’ve developed our script further and are discussing our options for equipment – such as steadicams – and certain techniques we can implement into the editing and cinematography of the production. We’re getting closer to a point where we can properly begin filming and put together our project.

watch here – comparative final george flavell.mp4

Aaron has scouted some locations that he thinks would be good for filming the project – The sand dunes for the final shots of the film, and a friend’s house as the main setting for the film, which we have permission for. We have also discussed the storyline, surrounding a group of teenagers attempting to dispose of a body at a party gone wrong, and discussed the motivation behind disposing of the body.

We have agreed to make a short film in the genre of crime/mystery/found footage and we will all be writing the screenplay for it together.

We plan to watch Project X and one of the Knives Out films for inspiration.

I think that Aaron and I worked well on this task, taking in the smaller details mentioned in the extract to add extra details into our screenplay. If we had more context to the rest of the novel we were adapting from, we would’ve had an easier time writing it, and would probably have a better final product, given the short timeframe we had to write this too.

We made use of the resources we were given, like the example screenplay with notes on the PowerPoint, and it definitely helped.

We practiced writing a screenplay, adapting Orson Welles’ 1948 novel 1984 from a small extract taken from the introduction.

A screenplay is a written script of a film, which includes the instructions for acting, and for the scene directions. It’s to be interpreted by the director and visualised in a shooting script.

One film that I would say is an example of good screenplay is Forrest Gump, written by Eric Roth, based on Winston Groom’s novel.