A script is a person’s creative and imaginative story that they have written themselves. Usually when one writes a script it is genuinely meant that they wish to turn that script into a movie or short film. Wanting to project their personal image of what they have written to real life or animation, whether it be a short film or a feature film. A script is similar to a book, however very different at the same time. For example, a script contains camera angles, dialog, transitions and any other media terminology used when describing a scene. When I was writing the script for my genre scene “Living with idiots” I used many different media terminology when I was trying to get the image in my head onto paper. For example, I used parenthetical, which is a way to explain the way a character says something, for example, If my character “Milly” said something, however I wanted the person reading the script to know how she said it, I would add parenthetical. A strength with writing scripts is that a person cannot be too descriptive with the set or what the character is wearing, and focuses on the dialogue and the plot. However, a weakness with this particular way of writing is that it is more technical than writing a book, because one would need to add fade in/out’s, transitions, scene headings, camera angles etc. Once I was finished with my genre script, there were many mistakes that I needed to develop, mostly grammar and spelling mistakes. Which have been rectified and fixed, although when it comes to the technical side of media, I’m rather confident.
A review, is the honest and personal opinion of the writer about any form of media or object, for example a review of a game controller, how the person feels about the game controller; the size, the buttons, the analogue stick, also reviews are most commonly on films, for example, I read a film review on “A Clockwork orange” on the website “rotten tomatoes” which is a website for people that wish to review films as a hobby rather than a profession. I have written many film reviews, as well as game console and gaming object reviews, for example, I wrote a film review on “Be Kind Rewind” for my media course. I also wrote an object review on the Xbox controller. One of the strengths for writing reviews is that there is no wrong or right answer, it is genuinely the writer’s personal opinion. Although, a weakness with writing a review for a film is that many people may not agree with your opinion, whether it is good or bad, disputes could be formed and problems could be made due to how strongly the writer feels about what he or she is reviewing. Developing a review is mostly on grammar, facts about the film and the structure. Even though what the person is writing about is personal and the only person that can work on their opinion is the person writing it. Although, when I was writing my film review of “A Clockwork orange” I developed on it, by the structure of the review, in which I was told to write in an order, like, perhaps 100 words on the plot and 100 words on your opinion.
A blog is usually a person either writing or recording themselves talking about a subject that they feel strongly about. For example, I wrote a blog about anti-hero’s in films. Where I wrote about how within a film, the hero doesn’t necessarily have to be the generic strong, handsome type that saves countless lives and lives a double life. But even just a person who has nothing special about him or her, but they make a difference anyway. One of the strengths of writing or recording a blog, is that a person can choose a subject or be given a subject that they feel passionate about, and can talk freely about. However, a weakness with this type of writing is that again someone may not agree with your opinion and try to argue that their opinion is dominant, another weakness is that sometimes when a person is writing about something that he or she feels passionate about, problems with verbalising or writing how they feel can become difficult, I personally have gone through this many times when writing about something I feel passionately about, for example, when I was recording my video blog about “A Clockwork Orange” writing the script for it came very difficult to me, because “A Clockwork Orange” has always been a favourite film of mine, and I feel very strongly about what the film means and how the film is meant to be portrayed to the audience, and many people don’t agree with me, and trying to find the words to explain a film as deep as this proves difficult. When developing a piece of work such as this a person must focus on their weaknesses, for example, when I was developing my “A Clockwork Orange” blog, I focussed on the parts that I could make better and the problems with it, such as editing the blog to make it more entertaining and smooth when being watched. Other ways of development that I used personally, is that when I was working on my written blog about anti-hero’s I focussed on facts about the films that anti-heroes appear in, such as directors, character names etc. This helped very much when looking for a higher grade.
Emiily Bowles <3 