A quiet mixed week, as I suddenly find myself nearer to 90 than 65.
It's Week 6 officially, but Week 7 is the concluding week of Block One, with Week 8 allocated to TMA 01.
I've been doing several things, including looking at the start of Block Two.
I decided a few days ago that there is nothing in my latest novel worth keeping for this course. So I have finished it, doing all the complicated checks. 'Fatal Accident,' by Stella Scarlatti, my Romance pen-name, is available on Kindle from 1 December.
Mostly, I have been working on the draft for TMA 02, which will be my first Screenplay. It will be an interplanetary Science Fiction story. I have several queries about the process:
How different can I make my Aliens on a different planet, without straying into Animation?
How much do I have to leave to the Director?
Do the descriptions of my Alien species go into the Cast List at the beginning, or when they appear in the script?
Should scenes be labelled and/or numbered?
Can I use Voiceover or Subtitles for Alien speech?
How do I convince the Tutor about running time? Can I time each scene?
I know that I will have a confusing array of options for queries - Tutor Group Forum, Scriptwriting Forum (not yet open,) and Workshops (with limited opening dates.)
I also have to wait, probably at least three weeks for the return of TMA 01. And, of course, I am working on TMA 03.
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A quiet mixed week, as I suddenly find myself nearer to 90 than 65.
It's Week 6 officially, but Week 7 is the concluding week of Block One, with Week 8 allocated to TMA 01.
I've been doing several things, including looking at the start of Block Two.
I decided a few days ago that there is nothing in my latest novel worth keeping for this course. So I have finished it, doing all the complicated checks. 'Fatal Accident,' by Stella Scarlatti, my Romance pen-name, is available on Kindle from 1 December.
Mostly, I have been working on the draft for TMA 02, which will be my first Screenplay. It will be an interplanetary Science Fiction story. I have several queries about the process:
- How different can I make my Aliens on a different planet, without straying into Animation?
- How much do I have to leave to the Director?
- Do the descriptions of my Alien species go into the Cast List at the beginning, or when they appear in the script?
- Should scenes be labelled and/or numbered?
- Can I use Voiceover or Subtitles for Alien speech?
- How do I convince the Tutor about running time? Can I time each scene?
I know that I will have a confusing array of options for queries - Tutor Group Forum, Scriptwriting Forum (not yet open,) and Workshops (with limited opening dates.)I also have to wait, probably at least three weeks for the return of TMA 01.
And, of course, I am working on TMA 03.
Alan