It's Official

So it's official. Feature articles are the hardest to write. I just finished mine. It's like a formal biography about someone. Even with great information, which I had, putting it all together was tougher than any of the other writing we have done in class. You want it to be perfect: afterall, it's a real story about a real person's life. Making it flow seemed hard also, but, like everything else we've done, the rule is "Get it written. You can go back and change it later." I have it written, and I can see myself going back to change it later.

Review

We are now working on reviews in class. Reviews for music, movies, food, you name it. A pro is that it's the writer's opinion. I wrote my review on the movie, An America Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong. The movie is about a little girl standing up to bullying. To find out what I think about the film, check out my article, Leading By Example.

Picture Caption: Sammi Hanratty (green), Ariela Barer, and Kaitlyn Dever with two fans at American Girl location.

*Note- Sammi's t-shirts says, "Let's be buddies, Not bullies." What an awesome shirt!

Picture from http://www.verymeri.com/tag/celebrities/

More Creative Outlets

I know it's been a while since I published some poetry, so I thought I'd continue today. One day within our unit, we listened to music and let of hands write what they would from the sound of the music. Our quote was "In the dark time, the eye begins to see" by Theodore Roethke. I wrote two poems that day, called Together and Hide and Seak.

Creativity with Words

Yesterday, I finished my 20 page spec script. It didn't take as long as I thought it would, but I still encountered difficulties, mainly spacing. I added in a lot of new scenes just so that everything would flow properly. Also, the grammar was a pain. Numbering the pages was hard: we have to do that manually. Here is the beginning of my script, however, I didn't include the title page, but only the current working title.
Script writing is completely different than anything else I have written. There seems to be more rules (or maybe that's just because I'm just learning about scripts now). It also seems to go quicker, once the idea is created, at least. This was the best unit so far.
I love movies, especially Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and both of the Step Up movies. I also love to act. It's the only art I'm good at. I would love to be in Hollywood for a movie premier. If that movie was my own, I would love it even more.
Movies are a big part of life, at least, for most of the world. If you think about it, a lot of social outings are movies. What about the common date of a dinner and movie? Even TV shows talk about movies within them.
Movies allow the writters to communicate ideas, thoughts, opinions, and advice with use of our favourite actors and actresses. We can learn a lot depending which movie we're talking about.
This is yet another way to be creative with words.

1 Page = 1 Minute

In class, we are now working on our own spec scripts. 20 pages:2 weeks. It seems like a lot of work at times and it seems like a task that may not be met. Even with the story graph in place, I'm finding it hard to write the first twenty pages. How can I make it so that my Inciting Incident doesn't happen on page 5, but around page 18 instead? The pacing is definetly that hardest, followed by the formatting. Did you know that there were so many rules for where to place things on a page? I didn't. I think I've pretty much gotten a grip on the formatting, but I'm sure some of my classmates might not have. The Formatting Police (Ms. Stronach) was going around the other day helping us with it, which was good. If we catch our errors early 1) we won't repeat them and 2) we won't loose marks for them. Overall, I think this is my favourite (maybe more stressful) unit so far.