Post by MenelaosGkikas on Apr 11, 2022 20:14:44 GMT
Republished from my Facebook Page, Maker's Dust, December 4, 2021
Hello folks and Jacob Krueger Studio alumni! I’ve been looking at the material created by me as a student in Jacob Krueger Studio, exercises, assignments and my insights in what I wrote and I can still recall many of the comments of Jake... I would like to proceed with a specific assignment and based on that, structure my personal thoughts and experiences of how screenplays are being judged including Hollywood coverage!
The assignment back at school in 2016 was to write lines of 1 word as a dialogue. Here’s a piece of literature:
A: Jerusalem!
B: Sacred?
A: Cibola
B: Myth!
A: Cosmic?
B: Wealth?
A: Intellectuality
B: Diversity
A: Balance
B: Collapses?
A: Write!
B: Enlightenment?
A: Excel?
B: Righteous
It’s a common practice in literature and theater where the voice of one person follows the voice of the other, as a sequence that attempts to perform a poem or a script. What are the real-world paradoxes in that? Still remember folks that the 3rd word “Cibola” is not pronounced “Kibola” the way I had heard the speaker reading my script in the platform attending online, but “Sibola”. Being pronounced like the word “Symbol” in math. The tone on i.
“In the 16th century, the Spaniards in New Spain (now Mexico) began to hear rumors of "Seven Cities of Gold" called "Cibola" located across the desert, hundreds of miles to the north. The stories may have their root in an earlier Portuguese legend about seven cities founded on the island of Antillia by a Catholic expedition in the 8th century, or one based on the capture of Mérida, Spain by the Moors in 1150.”
Cibola is also found in National Treasure: Book of Secrets with Nicolas Cage!
The Blogger makes exciting correlations 😉
Jake’s comments. How much educated are these characters? Very much. How much smart they are? Very much. Let’s get to the plot of it. Is it balance or is it collapsing? Have to be figured out…
A sequence of expressions of 3 or 4 words per expression makes clear how the story proceeds from beginning, to setting, to plot, to conflict, but not in terms of the theoretical steps but in terms of plot and structure. For example, I have started writing my novella, in Greek and I would like to have chapter titles in this book. I created 15 chapters where every chapter begins with an illuminating title that helps me shift from my initial written concept towards structuring and writing the story. Revelatory? As much as I can for those of you judging from the initial 10% and maybe 10%-20% of the book, required to be communicated as excerpts in terms of Amazon guidelines.
Let’s discuss how the previous concept is being applied to completed scripts and let’s play with words…!
Actors, teens, rising stars, love story, Cambridge University, NY school of performing arts, pregnancy, affair vs career, the pressure youth faces towards professional accomplishments, separation, parallel plots, twist of fates, characters decaying, positives and negatives, people being tested at all possible levels, uncertainty, auditions, risks, education isn’t over, psychology, emotional intelligence, acting, Hollywood stardom, Disney, etc.
Many of the previous concepts are already familiar to you by my book summary and the mentality of several excerpts I have created for the world wide web. Yes, I agree that my story, the way it is portrayed in the evolutionary notes I receive, it’s the same genre as La La Land and has a familiar (if compared with my script) setting. Excellent denominator so far!
Transforming screenplays up to the final green light is all about creating multiple story arcs, writing the different drafts and then applying ‘exponential thinking’ on both the script and the arc. It’s how writers and Hollywood readers think. Indicating it’s not execution but the potential of story that matters if we wouldn’t like to play it micromanagers, as in the past... Analytical structure and craft come later.
Whatever the case may be, it follows a similar pattern with the lines of 1 word assignment. Defining the path and then rock around it!
Silicon Valley, computer scientists, business and entertainment, business betrayal, balancing multiple jobs, creativity and excitement, cinematography and music production studies, screenwriting, venture capitals, time and money, film festivals, paparazzi, an Oscaric character, etc.
These are concepts from my second screenplay that is Krista’s Instinct. Anything and I mean anything, even if my descriptions are being far from the final valid path of a story arc, are being judged by bullets of points indicating the path and the potential surrounding them. And there can be multiple story arcs if we spend time defining them correctly.
Where an amazing artist or an Oscaric hero just have to be surrounded by the fact that projects like La La Land or A star is Born with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper will undergo lots of transformations into flexible and varied story arcs. Have to show the bad side of having pros and negatives as humans. Decay or put themselves in adventures in order to be believable and not create an ivory tower, rejections, failure, mishaps, alcohol and drugs, etc.
What do you think of my thoughts folks?!
Hello folks and Jacob Krueger Studio alumni! I’ve been looking at the material created by me as a student in Jacob Krueger Studio, exercises, assignments and my insights in what I wrote and I can still recall many of the comments of Jake... I would like to proceed with a specific assignment and based on that, structure my personal thoughts and experiences of how screenplays are being judged including Hollywood coverage!
The assignment back at school in 2016 was to write lines of 1 word as a dialogue. Here’s a piece of literature:
A: Jerusalem!
B: Sacred?
A: Cibola
B: Myth!
A: Cosmic?
B: Wealth?
A: Intellectuality
B: Diversity
A: Balance
B: Collapses?
A: Write!
B: Enlightenment?
A: Excel?
B: Righteous
It’s a common practice in literature and theater where the voice of one person follows the voice of the other, as a sequence that attempts to perform a poem or a script. What are the real-world paradoxes in that? Still remember folks that the 3rd word “Cibola” is not pronounced “Kibola” the way I had heard the speaker reading my script in the platform attending online, but “Sibola”. Being pronounced like the word “Symbol” in math. The tone on i.
“In the 16th century, the Spaniards in New Spain (now Mexico) began to hear rumors of "Seven Cities of Gold" called "Cibola" located across the desert, hundreds of miles to the north. The stories may have their root in an earlier Portuguese legend about seven cities founded on the island of Antillia by a Catholic expedition in the 8th century, or one based on the capture of Mérida, Spain by the Moors in 1150.”
Cibola is also found in National Treasure: Book of Secrets with Nicolas Cage!
The Blogger makes exciting correlations 😉
Jake’s comments. How much educated are these characters? Very much. How much smart they are? Very much. Let’s get to the plot of it. Is it balance or is it collapsing? Have to be figured out…
A sequence of expressions of 3 or 4 words per expression makes clear how the story proceeds from beginning, to setting, to plot, to conflict, but not in terms of the theoretical steps but in terms of plot and structure. For example, I have started writing my novella, in Greek and I would like to have chapter titles in this book. I created 15 chapters where every chapter begins with an illuminating title that helps me shift from my initial written concept towards structuring and writing the story. Revelatory? As much as I can for those of you judging from the initial 10% and maybe 10%-20% of the book, required to be communicated as excerpts in terms of Amazon guidelines.
Let’s discuss how the previous concept is being applied to completed scripts and let’s play with words…!
Actors, teens, rising stars, love story, Cambridge University, NY school of performing arts, pregnancy, affair vs career, the pressure youth faces towards professional accomplishments, separation, parallel plots, twist of fates, characters decaying, positives and negatives, people being tested at all possible levels, uncertainty, auditions, risks, education isn’t over, psychology, emotional intelligence, acting, Hollywood stardom, Disney, etc.
Many of the previous concepts are already familiar to you by my book summary and the mentality of several excerpts I have created for the world wide web. Yes, I agree that my story, the way it is portrayed in the evolutionary notes I receive, it’s the same genre as La La Land and has a familiar (if compared with my script) setting. Excellent denominator so far!
Transforming screenplays up to the final green light is all about creating multiple story arcs, writing the different drafts and then applying ‘exponential thinking’ on both the script and the arc. It’s how writers and Hollywood readers think. Indicating it’s not execution but the potential of story that matters if we wouldn’t like to play it micromanagers, as in the past... Analytical structure and craft come later.
Whatever the case may be, it follows a similar pattern with the lines of 1 word assignment. Defining the path and then rock around it!
Silicon Valley, computer scientists, business and entertainment, business betrayal, balancing multiple jobs, creativity and excitement, cinematography and music production studies, screenwriting, venture capitals, time and money, film festivals, paparazzi, an Oscaric character, etc.
These are concepts from my second screenplay that is Krista’s Instinct. Anything and I mean anything, even if my descriptions are being far from the final valid path of a story arc, are being judged by bullets of points indicating the path and the potential surrounding them. And there can be multiple story arcs if we spend time defining them correctly.
Where an amazing artist or an Oscaric hero just have to be surrounded by the fact that projects like La La Land or A star is Born with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper will undergo lots of transformations into flexible and varied story arcs. Have to show the bad side of having pros and negatives as humans. Decay or put themselves in adventures in order to be believable and not create an ivory tower, rejections, failure, mishaps, alcohol and drugs, etc.
What do you think of my thoughts folks?!