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...

Past Themes Last year I focused on the themes of Invention and Fantasy, Politics and the Social Order, and Looking Outward. Ultimately the goal of all my films was to entertain the audience to some degree. In exploring these themes I found that I am most drawn to relationships between the characters of a story. I like watching them transform, change their perspectives, change the perspectives of others, and much more. However, I find it truly interesting to watch the characters change the perspective of the audience. To see the audience be transformed by a piece is the most satisfying conclusion to any work of art. I find that a story that has elements that require introspection are the greatest gift. However, that's not to say there is not a need for pure entertainment. I find a need to balance the themes and bring new topics to be discussed. At it's most basic, themes are just a broad topic of discussion. From these themes I've discussed and the insights I've gained, ...

Tristan, Andrew, and I began writing a new film. Eventually the path of the film changed but we had previously discussed a monster being in it. I immediately began working on creating a monster model in blender to see if it would work. The concept was a dark, grotesque representation of some sort of demon. The demon was essentially a foot-soldier for the angel of death in our film. We have since put this concept aside, however, I wanted to keep up to date on my modeling so I decided to create it anyway. So far I have the entire face done, still undecided on whether or not to continue with this project. I think for now I will get back to working on scripts. However, it was a good project to get back into blender and learn how to utilize some of the new sculpting brushes and navigate the new layout. First Render Final Render Mon - modeling Tues - sculpting Wed - sculpting Thurs - script writing Fri - texturing