Lesson 1

[Madeleine Vessel]

Madeleine Vessel’s High Speed Writing

Doing this assignment, I realized that my teaser was too short, so I incorporated the first part of Act 1. This seems right.

Because I had already done quite about of writing of this section, I didn’t need to use many of the high speed writing in this section. I’m sure this will change in Act 1.

It’s exciting to have the first draft of the teaser done.

[George Petersen]

George Petersen – TEASER / HIGH SPEED WRITING

What I learned doing this assignment is how important it is to let the draft write itself as much as possible. Being able to go back to the outline was a great help as it pointed out the direction I needed to go.

[Jack Young]

Jack Young’s Teaser / High Speed Writing for “STREAM”

What I learned doing this assignment is that my teaser didn’t work. I had recently seen a film that was apocalyptic like mine and they had used a teaser where a news team was explaining the nature of the apocalypse. I replaced the teaser that I had originally written in the outline with an interview by one of my main characters to do this and thought it was effective. Later, I recalled that in a audio lesson Hal said that the dialogue and action in the first two pages had to be some of the best in the script or we’d lose the reader. I then realized that the original teaser that I had in my outline worked much better and created intrigue and mystery a lot better than the interview. I was much happier after going back to the original idea.

[Eric Humble]

Eric Humble’s Teaser / High Speed Writing

What I learned doing this lesson is: how letting go of perfection and embracing speed has allowed me to create a very high speed. This was one of those scenarios for me where the teaser seemed to “write itself.” I just took my notes from outline and carried them over, added a little formatting to them and a light amount of added description and I had it. I’m excited to see what comes up when I apply this process to the rest of the script!