Berries’s Way

2 more weeks to go and we shall say bye bye to this module. Agree that storytelling is such a short module..only 8 weeks..however..the story that we have wrtiten will still stay and bring to storyboarding-ing.

The first thing we did for today class is QUIZ..ARH! More difficult than i expected as i thought that it will just be filling blanks =\ Actually have wasted my time reading the slides as most of the question are based on the short film that we watched. Should have go limewire, download them and watch over and over again..but then i doubt that they will be avaliable there. At least i know who is the director WEE-LEE-LIN..yay..will get at least a bonus mark..

My first draft..i dont even know what am i writing..i guess other people will also get a hard time figure it out..the story was like so lame =.= for me..cause i don’t know how to create a mysterious mood in my writing.

Good luck then..

Damn it..i just cant think of a good story for my draft 1!! AHH!! Help ME!!

Been doing alot of observation lately..and i mean ALOT..but i just couldnt figure out what story i want to write..i just cant think of a good ending ..ARR! I must remember not to write about character studies again..i must make up some events for the stories..but what will be the best way to end a story? Dying seems to be too common..and i just cant stop the story half way through!!

Ok! Memory..shit ! I dont have any exciting nice memories to write about, everything that ever happens in my life is way too common..and i wont be interested to write them as my story

 Experience..so what would be the best experience i ever have? ARR..i just cant think of any!!

Obsevation ! Observation! You’re my only god now..come’on..let me have some inspiration please!

Arr! 2 pages of story..for a totally noob like me is way too difficult..no much time left..hopefully can get some idea from my dream tonight..ARR!

Stories not neccessary to be a personal experiences or memories..it can be make up..just like what we have done on this week lesson which we were told to write a true and false story..it depends whether if you’re a good liar that you can make your false story as real as the true one..

If you’re stuck somewhere in your story..try making the character youself of what you’ll do if you met the exact same situation as the character in your story..

“Show but not tell”, the greatest challenge for scriptwriters. People don’t always think the same things as they watch or read a story, hence, for a good scriptwriter, he/she must makes sure that he/she conveys the right ideas or message to the readers. In order to support this statement, “Show but not tell”, one must need a wide range of words to show the emotion, situation of the story. Such as the words “glad” and “ecstatic”, although both of them mean happy, but using the word ecstatic bring in a more powerful emotion, to let the readers knows how happy he/she really is.   

Same goes for acting, to achieve, “Show but to tell”, other than a good script, good actors are also important. We want to show, the actors must act according to scripts, of how the emotion should goes. To show “Sad, very sad and damn sad”, inexperienced actors may not know how to differentiate them, or they may “over-powered” it and made their acting looks abit “fake”, or even bring in the wrong ideas for the audiences.

“Show but not tell”, I think this statement may be too hard for me to achieve it, because i don’t have a wide range of vocab to support it, and I don’t really know how to convey my thought fully using English. Maybe, somedays, I may write my script in chinese and get someone to translate it..

Ok..honest speaking..I wasn’t paying much attention to this lesson cos something went wrong with my mac

So we got our “people-watch” ready and have to find two addresses randomly from an old address book, so i guess the aim for doing this is to let our impression of those “stangers” and find suitable names for them, names that may determine how they behave. We are also told to write a story about them and it is not easy, we have to think the extreme way to provoke people, using the impression we have on those “strangers”

We also learn to determine how we want our story’s characterss to be, either in their personalities, backgrounds and their thoughts. We don’t have to write them out words by words such as “I’m Zheng Jie, 17 years old, currently studying in ngee ann poly”, however, we could express them out via conversation between characters and their action.

While for the worse, we have to think of 5 short 50-words stories. Which reminds of me of composition we wrote when we are primary 1, it was so easy during that time, but not now anymore. We have to work out our first draft on week 6, yup, 3 more weeks to go, hope i can finish by then.