Zachary Willard Film/Blender

 Script Shot List

 Writing I've continued to write scripts in order to gain as much experience writing as possible. Below are the first 9 pages of a script I've just started recently. I'm still continuing work on the one I showed you from last week. I'm also about to enter production on the drama I wrote titled: Dreams Do Die. My goal right now is just to get as much experience writing as possible. I once heard someone say that in order to get good at something you need around 1000 hours doing it. The way I see it, the more stuff I write, the better I will get at it. The stuff I write doesn't have to be good, I just have to constantly be exercising my writing muscles. Also I wanted to note that I don't plan on making the script below, I'm just writing for the sake of practice. 9 Pages of Script Mon - Worked on Drama script Tues - Nothing Wed - Finished Drama script Thurs - Shot list Fri - Shot list Sat - acted in a friend's film

 What I'm working on Right now I've got a few different scripts I'm working through all at different stages. I'm writing a drama which is working towards the final draft of the script. I'm also writing another action kind of film which is still in the very rough draft phase. For a bit of background, I've been experimenting with different writing processes. For the action film I'm using notecards and a cork board. When I get an idea for a scene or a conversation or even just a shot I'll write it down and pin it to the cork board. This way if I want to change the order of scenes, insert a scene, or cut a scene I just pin or unpin a note card. It allows for a much more free-flowing story. Below are pictures of the current notecards I've made in the order they appear on the board. Note Cards Mon - wrote Tues - nothing Wed - wrote Thurs - nothing Fri - wrote Sat - acted in a friends film

 Idea Journal Over the summer I started righting ideas down in this notebook so I wouldn't lose any. It's slowly been growing more and more. A few of the ideas I plan to include in the short film I'm currently righting for class. These are ideas I get simply from the moment and I write them down, good or bad. The goal is to capture enough snippets of stuff until I've gathered a bunch that sort of match up. Than I can turn the ideas into scenes, and the scenes into a film. Previously I'd really struggled with writer's block and I've found that this really helps. The easiest way to deal with writer's block I've found is to ask a question you don't know the answer to. This is especially hard in todays society when we have the answers to all our questions at the click of a button. What I've been learning to do is when I get that curiosity question: What was the name of that song? I than search for the answer internally instead of externally. I co...

Reflection  Recently I've been working on writing a lot. I did finish the first draft of that script I've been working on since April. It's 98 pages which is 8 pages over my original goal. This 98 page script marks the first full length screenplay I've ever written. Going into it I didn't expect it to be very good, I was mainly writing it just to get used to writing something that long. The main difference I noticed between writing a feature length screenplay (between 90 and 120 pages) and a short film (max 60 pages) is that it requires much more commitment. It was truly a struggle to remain interested in the same story for several months, and I'm only done with the second draft. For now I don't plan to do anything more with it since it's not something I could actually film. This is mostly due to budget, since it's a sci-fi script, I would need a lot of different sets. Once again, I never wrote this script to be filmed, I simply wrote it for practice...