Day 1 Assignments

[Sharilyn Kyle]

Sharilyn’s Teaser / High Speed Writing

What I learned doing this assignment is…this is fun BUT it has to be focused.

My experience of using the high speed writing rules as I wrote the teaser was smooth. But I did get sidetracked when a character who never even existed popped into my head and tried to hijack the whole pilot!! I had to FOCUS for real and send him away.

[Tom Minier]

Tom’s Teaser / High Speed Writing

What I learned from this assignment was that this high speed method can really move a script along, but it does take concentration. It was really tempting to overthink the descriptions and dialog, but even though I continued to redirect my focus toward speed, I was happy with the first draft of teaser.

Overall, I think the high speed approach worked really well and I’m looking forward to seeing how the momentum continues to play out through the remaining acts.