Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Concept 7 Question #2.

In the film I'd like to write, there will be I believe a few hours of "real time" passed from the start to finish. The percentage of elapsed "real time" is I'd say less than 20%, I can't be exact.

Concept 7

Identify a movie in which the story unfolds in the following timeframes:

1.) A single day; Training Day.

2.) A week; The Ring.

3.) Several Months; The Matrix.

4.)Ten or more years; Forrest Gump( My favorite movie by the way).

Techniques that the films above used to convey the passage of time were through title cards and character aging. I also believe dialogue too.

Short Scrip Reflection.

The best scene of my script, in my opinion is when Roddy(main character) tries to get his friend Phango to follow him for a rescue mission. I chose this scene as the best of the script because it seems the most funny part of the script(choosing banana split over someone's life? Lot Of Laugh). The worst part of the script Id say would be when Roddy and Phango run into the boy who saved the girl. This was the worst scene because before that it seemed like Roddy and Phango were beginning their road to an adventure, but then I chose to write a twist which pretty much ended the true adventure, which I wasn't very proud of. I could have improved this if I chose to give our heroes an easier and quicker adventure with an easy solution to the plot, but I got lazy and chose to end it quick with a huge plot.

Friday, September 2, 2011

Concept 6 Brainstormers.

1.) Geri's Game: -Age is 60s.
-Gender is male.
-Number of characters is 1.
-Number of locations is 1.
-The problem is that Geri is losing to himself in a chess game and the solution is that he swap sides and took an easy victory over himself.
-3 minutes
-What I liked was the game between the two same people... it was intense. What I disliked was that the old man cheated to win.

Lifted: -Ages are 20s, genders are males, number of characters are 3, number of locations are 2, the problem was that the rookie alien couldn't figure out how to capture a human with the ship's complicated controls and the solution was... well I don't think there was one.



2.)There could be more added to it, but I doubt it will be an amount of 2 hours.


3.)My favorite movie is Forrest Gump, and I do believe there is a scene from the movie that could stand on its own, like when Forrest attempts to run away from bullies on bikes, but he is being slowed down by his legs which have metal attached to them. Then, Forrest shakes them off and finally got the ability to run like Forrest Gump!

Thursday, May 5, 2011

California Dreamin'

Well, my mom and dad came to California before my older brother was born. They haven't always been here since they spent up to their young adult years in Mexico. There were also times during my life when we would move back to Mexico and then come back to the United States. I was born here in San Jose, California, and I never knew if anybody before my parents in the family tree ever came to this state. As I can see with the Trasks, they came to California believing that it was the place to accomplish their dreams. I think my parents move here for the same reason but it was dedicated to their children, such as me. Many diverse people come to California because they believe it is the state to where a person MUST pursue their dreams.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

MLA Tips.

1.) An example of "common knowledge" would be "there are four seasons in a year".

2.) You cite something without an author by citing the book title.

3.) For an online source without a page number, no worries! The citation will still include the most important info!

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Timshel

"Thou Mayest" connects to the topic of Cain and Abel that runs in East of Eden because Cain had the chance to make a choice before doing his evil action of killing his own brother Abel. This idea of Timshel affects Adam and the other characters by giving them a seed of evil inside them.