Screenwriting!

Today was my first screenwriting class, and it was awesome. It was supposed to be nearly four hours, but it only ended up being forty-five minutes. But, anyway, I have never been so excited for homework in my life! 

We have five assignments due Monday, and they're all pretty short, but they'll be fun. We have to read a feature script and write coverage, which is basically a synopsis and analysis of a script. Then we have to list 10 movies we love, that we think we could have written. Then there's a prompt about a non-dialogue scene about a person letting a dog outside. Which is great. We had stuff like that on the application, and it was so much fun.

And already, I learned so much, just from forty-five minutes! And I'm excited to go back and apply what I learned today to all of the scripts I've already written, to make them better. 

We also had cinematography class, and I never knew it took so much work and planning just to film a scene! We dissected this scene: where was the light? Where was the sun? Why do you think he put the light here? Why do you think he framed it this way? Phew. Crazy stuff.

Then I had production management class, which was pretty awesome. We started out the class by talking about the 5 top box office movies of the week, how much they made, and what the budget was. Which is really what I do in my spare time. So that was great.

It's just cool, because I've had so many film studies classes where we discussed the film as viewers. But now, we're discussing films as people who actually want to make movies. And that's really incredible. It's hard to explain, but, trust me, it feels so much more important. 

It already feels like I've had waaaay more than 2 days of class. In a good way.

I think this semester is gonna fly by.