3. Since I was a kid, I have never been able to go anywhere,
I don’t care how mundane, and not find a story in
something. I could write from any perspective. As the
person themselves, an object in the room, an outsider
looking in. It didn’t matter. Creative Writing is freedom.
You are not locked in to a set of rules. You just write.
About what you like, how you feel, anything. If you’re like
me though, sometimes a story hits you, and it’s like
you’re the medium and it just flows through you onto the
paper, or screen.
4.
5. Motion picture production in my understanding is where the magic
is. It starts with a producer getting the idea, albeit whether they are
the writer or they develop a screenplay from someone else. After
the director, actors, and other key people have been hired, the real
magic begins. This is where everything starts falling into place to
create a movie, television series, documentary, etc. Motion picture
production is everyone working together as a team, each person
doing their part to create a live story.
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7.
8. Media Communication is how we get our information today.
We talk to each other on phones, tablets and computers’. We
look up our news on tablets and smart phones. Honestly today,
our lives run on media in one way or another. I am an online
student, without media, I could not be here learning all that I
am. With media, we are more connected now than we have
ever been. Businesses are run, friends are made and families
stay in touch long distance through media communications.
9. Creative writing, motion picture production and media
communication are just three parts of a whole. We need
writers to dream, come up with the ideas. Everyone has a
different perspective on different things, we need people who
can think not only out of the box, but sometimes out of the
world. After the ideas have been thought of and put down on
paper, we need the experts who can take that idea, and bring it
to life. After it the idea has been created, we need
professionals to put the word out there, design ads and
gimmicks to get people excited about seeing it. Altogether
these three pieces of the industry do work together, and really
we cannot have one without the other. A movie would not be
without someone first coming up with the thought and writing
it out. We would not know of said movie, or that we wanted to
watch it without the media showing us.
10.
11. Before the development of a film or television
show or any project really, there has to be an
idea. The person who has this idea is the
screenwriter. Most times they are the ones
with the idea, and have sought out a producer
to get their idea into production. Sometimes
they can be the producer. In some cases the
director can be screenwriter and producer as
well. So, the screenwriter is in my opinion one
of the most important people in the
development phase of production. Of course I
may be a little biased.
12. The producer is definitely a key person in the pre-production of
a project. They are the ones who get the funding, set up the
locations, help hire the director and other key roles in the
production. Sometimes they are even the screenwriters. They
have either written the idea and are working to get it made, or
they are helping the screenwriter. They are the ones to make
sure everything is being done.
13. Usually the director is the one hired after the
producer has gotten the funds and the script
together. Other times the director is the writer,
or some have been known to be producer,
writer and director. During the filming of a
production, the director has to make sure that
the scenes are how they are supposed to be,
the actors saying and moving just right for the
feel of that scene. Ultimately, the words and
idea are from the writer, but the end result is
the director’s vision. A great director though
talks and takes ideas from other people on set,
so in the end it is everyone’s vision coming
through.
14. The editor has one of the most important jobs. During post-
production, it is the editors’ job to go through hours and
hours of footage. Scene by scene. Sometimes working
closely with the director, they make the decision on what
scenes stay, and which ones need to be cut. Working with
the sound people as well, to make sure all the right sounds
and music are in the final product. It is the editors’ final
decision of it all that we see at the end.
15. A PR manager is a very important person to have. Whether you are a famous individual or a
company, having someone to stand in front of you and take the brunt of public adoration,
ridicule and rumors and turn them to your benefit is a must. In the Visual Arts Industry, a
production company is going to want someone who knows what the audience wants and can
then promote their film in a way that is going to make these people get up and go to the
theater and watch this movie. When it comes to marketing the film, the PR manager and their
ability to read the audience and come up with the right pitch, can make it or break it.
17. Creative Writing Terms
Spec Script- a Spec Script is a script someone writes because they want to. It is
something they are passionate about and hope to one day have someone read it and
turn it into a movie. Sometimes they may write it and just put it away. Really, it is just
a script not written with the already made plans of being put into production.
Arc- an arc is the ongoing plot of a movie, television series, novel or graphic novel. It
is the story that builds the characters, brings them together, and pushes them
through to the end. Like in a television series. Each season has an arc, or a story that
gradually unfolds throughout each episode until the season finally. Most shows tend
to wrap it up by the end and start a whole new arc in the next season and some build
it up and then leave you hanging and pick it back up.
18. Motion Picture Terms
Slug Line- When you look at a script, there is one line that
introduces you to the scene. It might say Int. meaning Interior,
or Ext, meaning exterior. It will give you the location as well. If
it is important to the scene it will also have time of day,
whether it is night or day. They are always one line.
Foley-Is the art of adding sound to a film. Sound effects that
cannot be picked up during filming, or that need to be crisp
and clear and not lost in the other noise. This is done manually,
added in after filming. Different props are used in the making
of these sound effects. For instance, you may want the sound
of bicycle wheels to be prominent, but during filming it isn’t
going to pick up very well, so a sound effects artist will set up a
bicycle on a sound stage and have a mic right next to the
wheels to capture the sound and then it will be added in during
that scene.
19. Media Communication Terms
Podcasting- Is a mix between IPod and broadcasting. Podcasting is
simply a way to download episodic pieces, such as unpublished
books, recorded and published online one chapter at a time. They
can be downloaded on an IPod, computer or any other listening
device.
Propaganda- is rumors or information, whether true or false, good
or bad. It is usually spread through different social media. It can be
used to promote or tear down a person or group. Politicians use
propaganda a lot during election time. Cartoonists for newspapers
used propaganda during election years a lot. Some people have
been known to spread rumors about themselves or their companies
to promote business as well.
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21. Tim Burton
Tim Burton isn’t just known as a screenwriter, he is also a producer and a director. I
had to pick Tim Burton for this project, and to be honest any project because I
absolutely admire everything about his creative process. Tim has been criticized by
many for his movies because they have a sort of black humor mixed with gothic
horror. I like him, because he is strange and unusual. He is weird, and he doesn’t hide
it, he uses that and an innate ability to see things that most look past or don’t see at
all to create the films that he has. The simple things. Ever since Pee-Wees’ Big
Adventure, Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, I have loved his movies, his mind. I
aspire to one day create like him. I hope to one day soon be able to work with him on
a project. Early in his career he wrote a film called Franken-Weenie, a simple story
about a dog brought back to life, based on a dog he had owned. Simple things like
that, give me hope and faith in my own ability.
22. http://www.springfieldwritersguild.org/-
Springfield Writers Guild in Springfield MO,
encourage new writers to market their
material. They have mentoring in the
genres’. They are about helping the writer
put their material out there and to get
published.
http://www.wga.org- The Writers Guild of
America(West) represents writers for
television, movies, documentaries and
animations. Their sole purpose is to make
sure that the writers get their dues for the
use of their art.
25. Industry Professional
Tim Burton- biography.com/people/tim-burton-9542431
Writers Guilds
http://www.springfieldwritersguild.org/-
http://www.wga.org-
