[Betsy Cramb]

What I learned from doing this lesson:

I just don’t have much time so I will have to do these assignments when time permits.

First Part:

That my 5 ideas had some merit but I also thought of a sixth idea that may be better suited to a contained script.

I also realized that it will take a bit of work to write the ‘pitch’ in one or two sentences. I tend to be long-winded and write a whole page for the pitch!

And, of my 6 (since I added one) ideas, I think I am leaning towards two of them as my favorites, as most original and could best be made into a contained movie. The sixth one keeps grabbing my attention so that may be the one to develop further.

Second Part:

Watch a movie that was made Pre-Covid and adapt it to the Covid Guidelines.

Watched “The Imitation Game” with Benedict Cumberbatch (?) – and after watching it, I figured out how they could have told the same story without set changes and kept him as the central figure. The cast could be cut down to about 10 key characters without extras– no special make-up needed. Clothing was working clothes at the time (World War II era) and sets would be pretty simple to design so they wouldn’t need much changing. Biggest thing would be there wouldn’t be flashbacks to his early days in a “public” school and he would have just had his memories. This could have been achieved by having him or the leading woman reading from his diary without showing the earlier scenes. I think this movie was compelling in the way it told the story and that same story could have been told just keeping everyone at the “Radio Factory.” (Decoding the code called the Enigma from start to finish, fascinating!)

They were spies basically working for the English government and that would have been reason enough to hold everyone at the factory, without having them go out or to other accommodations. You could have assumed that they were all housed and fed on the site.