So I wrote my first script over ten pages the other day.
What an experience that has been.
I'm not exactly the most talented writer in the world, nor am I the most passionate. Don't get me wrong I love telling stories but when it comes down to it? Well... I'm just not that excited about stuff like that.
I can take a script and imagine the snot out of it on how it should look and be shot. When it comes down to what the characters are saying and feeling? fugheddaboutit.
I guess it's not so much he fact that I don't like the stories in movies it's just not what I've been created and brought into film to do... I like to visualize how I can portray the characters dialogue.
I can quite literally operate off of minimum sleep and never feel tired when I'm working beside or with a camera. When it comes to writing? Snoozeville...
I'm not alone though Michael Jordan was the same way! During the 1992 Summer Olympics as team captain of the USA men's team he famously got approximately one hour of sleep each night but also managed to play some of the best basketball games of his life. Why? Because he was doing something he was passionate about.
So where does this phenomena come from? I dunno... Psychologists noticed it or so I overheard from a friend taking Sports Psychology as an elective at Humber College. He feels the same way about playing bass (that is he can play for hours and never feel exhausted).
Interesting lives some people lead I guess, but to sum up the two weeks of working on my final, fiction, interactive narrative would be. Awesome to write the story, difficult to makeup dialogue with the characters, and fun to work and re-work it so it was something that was better than the first draft.
What an experience that has been.
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| Me after writing 3 lines of dialogue Source |
I can take a script and imagine the snot out of it on how it should look and be shot. When it comes down to what the characters are saying and feeling? fugheddaboutit.
I guess it's not so much he fact that I don't like the stories in movies it's just not what I've been created and brought into film to do... I like to visualize how I can portray the characters dialogue.
I can quite literally operate off of minimum sleep and never feel tired when I'm working beside or with a camera. When it comes to writing? Snoozeville...
I'm not alone though Michael Jordan was the same way! During the 1992 Summer Olympics as team captain of the USA men's team he famously got approximately one hour of sleep each night but also managed to play some of the best basketball games of his life. Why? Because he was doing something he was passionate about.
So where does this phenomena come from? I dunno... Psychologists noticed it or so I overheard from a friend taking Sports Psychology as an elective at Humber College. He feels the same way about playing bass (that is he can play for hours and never feel exhausted).
Interesting lives some people lead I guess, but to sum up the two weeks of working on my final, fiction, interactive narrative would be. Awesome to write the story, difficult to makeup dialogue with the characters, and fun to work and re-work it so it was something that was better than the first draft.
