Scriptwriting Questions

1. What are turning points?

-Turning points are what happens in a story/scrip that turns the whole scene around.

2. What do they do to a story

-A turning point gives the story edge, so that the watcher stays interested and doesn’t get bored.

3. Give an example of when you used them. How did you use them?

-I used a turning point in my story, after the begining. Where Emily is standing in an empty opening in a forest and nothing particularly interesting is happening. So to keep the viewers interested and on their toes i added something obserd and unexpected.

I used them when the viewers started thinking that this is the beggining of a very unoriginal scene and that they would get bored easy, and then put a giant panda in there to interest the watcher and whant to know the explanation as to why, a giant panda.

Emily and the Baby Panda 3 Act Structure Diagram

Emily And the Baby Panda

Beginning:

Emily is standing in a desolate circle, outside the small circle are thousands and thousands of trees. She looks around for civilisation.

 

Turning:

Emily finds a cup of fresh water and picks it up and goes to drink it. When the sound of colossal footprints get closer and closer, the vibration sending ripples through the water in the cup.

Low:

Suddenly a section of giant trees separate to reveal a humongous black and white panda wearing a green backpack. Emily is terrified and goes to scream but is glued to the spot.

Mid:

The huge panda is holding a mini, baby panda in is huge paw. Then in a booming voice the panda says “PANDA! BABY PANDA FOR SALE! COME GET YOUR BABY PANDAS!” the panda spots Emily and leans down closer “DO YOU WANT A BABY PANDA YOUNG MISS?” Emily looks at the baby panda and asks “how much?”

End:

The large panda shakes its massive head “FOR YOU! IT’S FREE” the panda smirks. Emily smiles and extends her arms for the baby panda “THEN HELL YEAH!” she exclaims, as the baby panda is placed carefully in her hands. Emily says thank you to the bulky panda, who nods in return before turning around, Emily hugs the baby panda tightly before looking up to see the backpack on the pandas back to be overflowing with baby pandas.

Begining: 4
Turning: 6
Low: 4
Mid: 10
End: 10

Beauty And The Beast

 

The beginning of Beauty and the beast, is the main character (Bell) living happily in her village, with her grandfather who owns a book shop. Also Gaston comes in, who is in love with Bell, which she doesn’t return.

The middle, is when Bell’s grandfather is travelling through the village forest and gets lost. Where he falls upon a desolate castle. He then encounters the beast who owns the castle and takes him captive. When Bell finds out, she herself travels to the castle to rescue him. When she reaches him, the beast in turn takes Bell in her grandfather’s place after she begs him to return him. After a while she falls in love with the beast.

In the end, Gaston, the local hunter and ladies’ man, tries to capture the beast even though Bell protests against it. And finally before the last rose drops Bell exclaims her love for the beast, and he turns back into a beautiful prince and peace is restored to the castle and across the land.

Scott Pilgrim vs the World Film Review

Emily Bowles                                                 Blue                                                                  19/09/2013

 

Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), is a whimsical joy to watch. The conversion between, a comic book looking lay-out and an arcade game outlook towards fighting. Makes this film an intriguing watch for the whole family, as well as creating escapism for the watcher. Brilliant acting on Michael Ciera’s part as the main character Scott Pilgrim, he seems to give away the feel of a ‘bored all the time’ 22 year old, who glides through life doing the bare minimum, so when the battles between the seven evil ex’s occurs it always comes as a surprise to me personally.

However, even though this film continues to gain good reviews from others, this film, for me, is not one of my top 10. It has an intriguing plot, however, the ‘damsel in distress’ look of a man fighting for the love of a woman, feels slightly sexist in the way that the woman herself, in this case; Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) can’t manage to fight for herself, or control her own love life, and the previous men of her life were to control it for her, which suggest that a woman may not be in control of her own life, and that a man is to control it for her. This, for me bumped the film down a few notches on my list. That being said, I cannot deny the scene when Ramona fights her ex herself.