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Scotch Literature Festival 2005 > Randal Flynn
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Scriptwriting - Looking Under The Hood (Years 9 & 10 workshop)
Screenplays are 95% craft and craft is something that can be studied and
mastered. By 'looking under the hood' - then getting behind the wheel
and doing it themselves! - students get to see the inner workings of a
screenplay and the nature of cinematic storytelling. Along the way, as
on most journeys, they lose some baggage - in this case, the fear and
inhibition of writing.
Script To Screen (Year 11 panel)
Movies come from an "original text" - the screenplay - which
the director and actors then interpret. Charting this script-to-screen
journey in a simple nuts-and-bolts fashion shows how a film story is told,
how drama is created, and why telling and listening to stories is the
art of being human.
Gattaca: To Err is Human (Year 12 masterclass)
Not just a dystopian look at a future society where the concepts of purity
and perfection are taken to their natural conclusion (where gene therapy
becomes gene tyranny), Gattaca is a film that explores the idea that in
the end what makes us human is what makes us imperfect: our own flawed
nature. Using Gattaca as a jumping off point, this talk will look at how
'story' is told cinematically and why this is both different, and similar,
to the storytelling techniques used in novels and short fiction.
Session Times:
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Year 12
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