Day 2: “What I learned rewriting my scene/character…?”

[Mi Lock]

(I’ll post my homework of Day 2 when the proper discussion will be open.)

The Godfather opening scene is so rich in details and intense that it might have been the scene that required me the most of work since we started the class. Delighted by all the things I was able to learn from that scene.

Insights/ Breakthroughs:

– The opening scene has to be challenging for the main character so I can show different traits/ layers of my main character and therefore depth, give an insight of who they really are, their personality. I can use both verbal & nonverbal communication.

– I can take my time to set up that intro and don’t have to wrap it up in few minutes. Even if the movie opens with Bonasera’s monologue, it doesn’t take away anything on Don Corleone’s power. At the opposite, it brings some mystery to him.

[Lynn Vincentnathan]

RE the WALKING DEAD scene, it’s weird but protag Ellie in my RomCom later explains to the protag Jim that she was about as effective as a walking dead before she met him. (I hadn’t seen the series, so I might change that now :).

I’m trying to give her a better character arc — instead of weak and ineffective, she thinks she has an anger problem that makes her ineffective, and thus limits her contact with others, eschewing romance. I’m working on that — partly from her eco-despair, but underlying that her father abandonment wound. Her mother had thrown a fit of anger the day he left them, breaking dishes (Ellie was only 5). So I’m thinking of having some breaking glass sound early on that startles her, puts her in a fit, or something.