Hi Florence, Millie and Mark!!
Our scripting is in the works....bloggers are busy as well....Foley artists are having fun with sound effects...everyone is intermingling with one another to share ideas and ask each other questions.
Sometimes writers need to go ask one of the aliens, the bus driver or one of the students on the ski trip to come to the script writing area to say a few lines in their own way. It is, as you said, a very organic process.
One of the things I did to move along the script-writing a bit more quickly was to set up brainstorming groups with one writer in each group and then some of the other students with him/her; then each of those groups was responsible for coming up with a first draft (pencil/paper)of an assigned scene.
Assigned scenes:
Getting on the bus (Feb. 11)
Bus ride before the storm starts
(dialogue between students)
(driver listening to radio stations-Orson Wells & weather forecast)
Sudden snow storm and bus crash...heart attack
Alien spaceship noticed outside bus...aliens enter bus and interact with students
Students embark on spaceship...discuss where they are going
Spaceship takes them to Whistler
Then, the writing team would at least have some material pencilled down on paper to start with when heading to the computer. It worked quite well. I have one student who is the captain of each team (Foley, writers, researchers, etc.) who are in charge of co-ordinating and gathering and dispatching jobs.
All in all, the past few days have been truly delightful to observe.
Question: What do I do with my googledocs account? Is that where the writers should be sending the script? Can they send things directly to it or do they need to send to me and then I can put things up on it? I have never really worked with that before so I am a bit lost.
Our scripting is in the works....bloggers are busy as well....Foley artists are having fun with sound effects...everyone is intermingling with one another to share ideas and ask each other questions.
Sometimes writers need to go ask one of the aliens, the bus driver or one of the students on the ski trip to come to the script writing area to say a few lines in their own way. It is, as you said, a very organic process.
One of the things I did to move along the script-writing a bit more quickly was to set up brainstorming groups with one writer in each group and then some of the other students with him/her; then each of those groups was responsible for coming up with a first draft (pencil/paper)of an assigned scene.
Assigned scenes:
Getting on the bus (Feb. 11)
Bus ride before the storm starts
(dialogue between students)
(driver listening to radio stations-Orson Wells & weather forecast)
Sudden snow storm and bus crash...heart attack
Alien spaceship noticed outside bus...aliens enter bus and interact with students
Students embark on spaceship...discuss where they are going
Spaceship takes them to Whistler
Then, the writing team would at least have some material pencilled down on paper to start with when heading to the computer. It worked quite well. I have one student who is the captain of each team (Foley, writers, researchers, etc.) who are in charge of co-ordinating and gathering and dispatching jobs.
All in all, the past few days have been truly delightful to observe.
Question: What do I do with my googledocs account? Is that where the writers should be sending the script? Can they send things directly to it or do they need to send to me and then I can put things up on it? I have never really worked with that before so I am a bit lost.
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