Media Project Process Post 5

In this week it was brought to my attention that I do not have either an audience research nor proof of my work on my blog posts. From now on I will add pictures of my process and I will do my best to make an audience research on my project. In addition to new scenes, my teacher Betting Downing has added more comments since two weeks ago that I will address now.

Most of the comments posted on my script by my teacher mostly short highlights of several typos and incorrect verb tenses and uses that I have overlooked after being told in the past to check verb tenses. I have, however been praised for realistic dialogue described by Bettina as "effective in sounding like authentic talk." and "works well here to show the interaction between the characters.". In addition, she also wrote "Different attitudes are shown well through your word choice." to describe my different wordings for different characters. She also wrote positively on my stage directions of the characters using emotions written in parentheses and described them as effective, but there are still some that I need to add in certain situations. I hope she will add more as I continue my story.

We previously left off with the addition of the creation of an Apis Taxon monster based on a honey bee. I recently wrote a scenario where the Apis Taxon attacks the hospital that the two main characters were visiting. I recently found out about hospital emergency codes and their usage, and used a "Code Silver" which means an active shooter or weapon in the hospital (Villines, 2019), but in this case it is a monster attack. The monster attacks the two where, via a hologram projected from its watch, a message from the villain that created it addressed to Arnold warns him about his attacks and his revenge. Because of this reveal, both characters know how the Taxons are created and agree to work together to fight this threat.

I will soon finish this script with a few more pages to go when the protagonist will finally become a superhero and defeat the monster.

References
VILLINES, Z. (2019) Code blue: A guide to hospital codes and what they mean. [Online] Medicalnewstoday.com. Available at: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326291 [Accessed 24 Feb. 2020].

All About Me!

In class today, we were tasked to write about ourselves, our inspirations, and why we study in university according to these seven questions:

Why did you choose to study your subject area?
I initially wished to go through an art and design course. We were suggested several universities in Singapore fit for design students, but we could not secure a spot. While we were university-searching I found myself designing less and writing more, so my parents and I agreed that I am much more capable of writing than drawing as I frequently wrote fiction as a hobby. We went for a Creative Writing and Media progression route, but during my foundation year I had some particular trouble with understanding poetry so I had my route changed to Film Studies. I figured it would be the best for me  because I wished to become a screenwriter than a general fiction writer.

Why did you choose this university?
I was first suggested a university in Singapore by a Year 12 teacher who has students that enrolled in it as part of a design course, Unfortunately, because of problems with some agencies my parents searched for universities in Malaysia. It was then we went to two different education fairs where different universities are representing and accepting new students. De Montfort was represented in both fairs and we looked over their courses of their diverse selection of courses. Not only that but Leicester was more suited to a Muslim student such as myself as it had a culturally diverse population who practice a number of religions.

What do you think you will gain from studying here?
I think I will gain some more insight into real fiction-writing skills. My initial skills were lacking, in my opinion, and I believe I have improved significantly thanks to my course. I also would gain some knowledge into proper screenwriting and filming techniques to fit into it. Knowledge of film-making techniques would give me more of an understanding to script writing as both are dependent of one another.

How do you think  a degree will help you find employment?
I am actually unsure when I first thought of this. I would think that somehow after I get a degree I would present my ideas to studios until I get accepted. My degree would make those studios recognise me as someone who has some idea of what they're doing. I honestly am completely unsure of all this but I think it would be a good guess.

What else will you do while you are here in preparation for finding work at the end of your course?
I haven't yet considered finding a job. At the moment, my parents would want me to focus more on my course while in foundation, but we may discuss employment once my foundation course ends.

Who is your inspiration in life and why?
This is a hard question as I take inspiration from many people that I can't put down one. One inspiration is a fictional character, Gentaro Kisaragi from Kamen Rider Fourze, who I think about to help cheer me up at times and to remind me of how a real hero should be as he is a very cheerful person, despite that I am far from him in terms of personality. One inspiration in my works is Greg Aronowitz, who worked on Power Rangers SPD; my first and favourite Power Rangers season. I loved the serious, yet kid-friendly tone of the show that fits well with the police theme, and it also inspired the premise and setting to my own series that I write in my scripts: People Saver.

How do you see yourself in 10 years time?
I hope to see myself in charge of my own television show in America and may work with bigger companies like Hasbro to make it into reality, such as Hasbro's Allspark Pictures. I may invite fellow friends in film-making to help with the production of the film. I hope that it will be successful and run for at least a year, and that it would be critically praised. I don't really wish for recognition for my work as much as the actors do, but I am fine with that so long as people like my work.

Media Project Process Post 4

Because of some personal problems that needed attention last week, I did little last week in my project. Last week, I wrote a scene where the main character visits his injured love interest at the hospital where his employer visits him, even though he was indirectly responsible for her injury. The main her gets angry at him for his actions. This week, I added a cutaway scene of the creation of the first monster the hero will face. It was when a random jogger wearing a high-tech fitness tracker is captured by the villains and had a device inserted into the fitness tracker to transform him into a monster.

I also had some suggestions regarding the animal theme for the first monster as it should be scary enough to be a monster but common enough to be used as a form for the hero. I was suggested by a reception staff member a hoverfly; a native insect to the United Kingdom that is a fly with wasp patterns. I thought that the theme should be an animal everyone knows, so I decided on a bee, since the hoverfly resembled a bee or wasp. I discussed this with my teacher and also brought up the possibility of a bumblebee, but she brought up the fact that it would be too fuzzy to be scary. Ultimately, I went with a honeybee.

As I was writing this I now remember a monster based on a cute animal that still managed to be scary from Kamen Rider OOO: Shachi-Panda Yummy.

It gets worse the longer you look.

Media Project 1 Class Week 6

Today's class started off with a brief discussion of what animal my first monster in my script should be based on. Nobody made any suggestions but Bettina, our teacher, suggested a type of insect. After we finished with that, we commenced our regular lesson, this time on punctuation. We were given a sheet with two letters from a woman named Gloria to a man named John. Both letters had the same words in the same arrangement, but they had different arrangements of punctuation to give them opposite meanings.

This was to show the importance of punctuation to set a context in written works. We were then taught about the different punctuation and how they are used in several contexts. I suggested the use of an ellipsis (...), which was not present in the sheet we were give. We then talked about its additional usage to be used in the middle of a sentence and not end one with it, but use a dash (-) instead if a character was interrupted. Were were allowed to work on our respective projects and I was also given some additional suggestions for my first monster by my teacher after I asked about the first animal on Noah's Ark.

She answered with birds, but it wasn't specified what kind, other than that they flied. She then showed an online slideshow of monster-like animals to look for something fearsome. We both then narrowed down to a scorpionfly or an assassin bug, but I am leaning towards the scorpionfly. Afterwards, we were told to be in pairs and give critique on our works. I was paired with Weronika and I found several grammatical and punctuation errors, as well as suggestions to usages of other words in stead of others.

Media Project Process Post 3

This is my third post on my Media Project process, but this will be slightly short since I was focusing on my Set Essay since my last process post. As I mentioned before, I intended the main villain to have been implied as a former employee of the main character's workplace. I so far hinted this by them addressing the main character's co-worker and love interest, Hannah Hathaway, with her first name, despite Hannah thinking she never met them. Keep in mind that the villain is masked and their face is obscured. I wrote a part where Hannah tries to stop the villain's theft of a prototype, but is knocked unconscious by the, which is the driving reason why the main character is fighting as a superhero.

Afterwards the main character arrives at the scene and fights the villain's robot minions, but because the script is not meant to specify choreography of any kind I left the fight to the imagination of the reader by writing it briefly as "Hayato single-handedly fights them off-one-by one, despite their numbers.". The scene following this is the main character given some exposition from his employer as to what he was doing in the secret lab; the creation of new technology and its plagiarised design derived from the main character's own private technology designs as well as several other employees. This is as far as I wrote before focusing more on my Set Essay, but I should add more soon, including the introduction of the main character's superhero form and his first monster fight.

Media Project 1 Class Week 5

In yesterday's class, we were learning about an author's voice, which is the way a writer writes. We wrote the same scenario of purchasing coffee in different characters, from writing as we would say it ourselves to different characters of differing emotions and ages. We learned there are different ways to convey emotions using different words for the same scenario. This was to tell us how to write in our own style for our projects. As usual, we had time to develop more on our projects if we could.

We then were paired up and examined each others' opening to their project. I was paired up with someone who, unfortunately, did not have their project with them so it was somewhat one-sided. She praised me on my work on Celtx. My tutor later reviewed the same passage and praised me for my writing, but also commented on the use of tenses, as I mostly used past tense inconsistently, so I changed the tenses accordingly. I also gave my tutor the share link to my script so she can add comments on the document.

Media Project Process Post 2

This is my second process post on my script. I have continued into writing the first act and the second act of the story. The first act portrays the main character's workplace and occupation as a senior researcher at a pharmaceutical company. The script occasionally switches between the flashback to present day in the form of voice-overs by character commentary. The first act also covers the main character's relationships with his boss, and his future wife.

I am currently in the middle of writing the second act where the main character becomes a superhero after following his boss under the suspicion that he is doing shady business. Though the main character fails to follow him into a hidden elevator, the script nonetheless continues to follow his boss into a secret underground lab. Although this script is supposed to be based on the main character's perspective from memory, this part was included for the sake of context, but I may add an explanation for the main character's knowledge of the specific events between the scene where he waits outside the elevator and when he finally descends in the next scene. The boss is revealed to have his scientists research a new and advanced fitness tracker using designs stolen from his own scientists. It is at that moment they are attacked by the villain of this story, who I will not unveil in the script itself but hint they are a former employee.

I am at a count of 13 pages out of 20, so I hope to finish it soon.

I have also recently finished my project plan which can be found on my drive here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/111UIHtZt9bW7YZa1d6nF-rnIbiDeCYkg/view?usp=sharing