When I first heard
about the script frenzy project I thought it would be really interesting and
fun to do. I had never thought about trying to write a script before especially
not in thirty days. It seemed like a cool thing to know how to write. I was excited
to start working on it although I found the idea of having only thirty days to
write a little difficult to manage.
Now that the project is over, I felt like I grew tired of
it sometime during the middle. Erin and I were starting to lose interest in the
script and it was becoming difficult to write. Even though I liked the idea of
writing a script, I also wish we could have done other things too instead of
spending most of the semester working on it. For example, I wanted to do poetry
or short stories and improve my skills in writing those types of things.
While we were planning the script, I found that the
character description pages were really helpful because it laid out so many
aspects of the characters and made it easier to develop a clear, 3-dimensional character.
I also thought that the pages helping with dialogue helped me understand what
to include in our dialogue. It pointed out how dialogue should be able to move
the story along, develop the characters and reveal things to the audience.
After taking on this project I learned that I have
difficulty working under time constraints. The thirty day time limit really
seemed to slow my thought process because I was too worried about making the
deadline. I usually take a while to sort out my thoughts and develop them into
a story or even to plan out one.
Our final script has about twenty two pages and it isn’t
completely finished yet. We only managed to get through about 10-15% of the
storyline that we had in mind. I feel like we could have managed our time
better since we didn’t have a set schedule of how much we should write every
day. We merely just started writing at the start of class and then stopped when
class was over. Sometimes we wrote a lot and other times we hit a few bumps and
didn’t write as much as we would have liked to.
I think that the strengths of our script are our usage of
dialogue to really show the characters’ personalities. Each character has their
own distinct personality that is expressed in what they say and do towards one
another. For example, our main character is Gabriela who is a very strong protagonist.
She is rebellious and sarcastic which is
demonstrated through her witty comebacks and insults she throws at everyone.
One thing that our script was lacking was description and
action. We didn’t include nearly enough description then we should have. I
think that our script was 90% dialogue when there should have been a balance
between the two. I think if we had more time we could have developed a clear depiction
of all the settings that our characters were in like how the school looked like
or what each classroom was like.
