Blog 13~ The Last Blog Post :'(

            In class when we first began to discuss the project I was beyond nervous. I was unsure how I would be able to write such a massive thing and see it come together well. Also with all of my other classes it seemed unreasonable. However after it was stated that we would be doing it in class, and that it’s more about quantity then quality the assignment seemed to look a bit smaller. If I was aiming for perfection while I wrote the whole script it never would have been finished.

            I really enjoyed doing this project. I got a lot of experience with writing a script and it was fun doing an episode of a tv show that I watch. We both had to sit down and watch episodes to really grasp how our characters talk. There really is a lot that goes into the creation of a script.

            I liked when we wrote out a paragraph for each part of our stories on the blog. It really helped when writing the story so I always had a guideline of where I was going next. The percentage pages really helped with the plot of our story. Also they showed us how a script should look in the first place. I had no prior knowledge to how a story truly should come together before this. The least helpful thing in the workbook was that we didn’t go through everything in it. Looking through it I noticed that it would’ve potentially helped to steer us in the right direction.

            I learned that I am too much a perfectionist at times, and cranking things out isn’t easy for me. But I think together we were able to conquer that and whip out a lot of pages. Together we noticed how hard it is to write a script. Our final script was 68 pages. We handled the time not always well in class. However we spent a lot of time at home working on the script. It was hard to sit down and write more than five pages because it made your brain hurt after a while. We should’ve spent the time in class better, but we spent many hours at home which compensated. We would’ve had more pages, but the Celtx deleted many of them.

            The strength of our script is that it feels real, and brought laughs to our own faces. The humor was consistent with Adventure Time, and they could’ve been real episodes. Everything came together well, but the punctuation and some of the intense descriptions need more work on them. I think Tyler and I are going to be working on this this summer and sending it in for potential approval to be episodes.

            My favorite parts of the scripts are how everything came together. I like how characters were incorporated from different episodes and it all seemed to flow very well. Also our new character fits with the Adventure Time aura. I would have worked more on Adventure Time and sent them in. However I wished we did the writing exercises more. All the words we put together were never really used. And I spent a long time on the six word memoir and the final project was never seen. I did enjoy writing the script, but I wish we did other things as well, like we did in the beginning of the semester. If given more time to do the Adventure Time script we would’ve worked at the same pace, and then went back to work on it. But I think we did a good mix of everything. It was a great semester thanks Mrs. Basko!

Blog 12~ Scene in a Scene

            The Adventure Time scene we chose was both of our favorites from the second episode we made. I believe that the greatest strength of the scene was the comic relief we incorporated into it. There were many different interacting characters bouncing off of one another and making it extremely funny to those who are familiar with Adventure Time. Throughout all of our script we tried to put in characters from different episodes, but this scene particularly really did that well. When I read it over it still makes me laugh, and I can really see in my head this being an episode and flowing well.

            I am very proud of this scene because we put together a lot of interesting ideas and scrambled them to get this. With the amount of time we had we created a lot of quality work. However there are some issues with the scene. The formatting as well as punctuation really needs improvement I noticed as I was rereading the scene for our classmates. One of our classmates gave us the feedback that we needed a more descriptive background on the characters. I do believe that Adventure Time can be hard to follow unless you’ve seen all of the episodes, but I think the randomness in the scene followed how the show usually goes pretty well.

            If we were to rewrite the scene I think we should add more description to each of the acts. Not necessarily having a narrator talk about the characters, but have the picture that’s in our head on the paper. As a writer we see what we’re trying to convey in the script, but it is important to make it so that the reader can see the scene how we see it exactly. Where the Cosmic Owl talked to Finn about math, there should be a flashback to his first and only appearance in the show. This might help the reader to piece together the scene better. Also there are certain screen shots that I could see adding to the scene as a whole.