Today, (Monday), I've tried to get as much done as possible since i won't be around the next few days. I watched the assigned film in the morning (The girl with The Dragon Tattoo), and began to write out every single scene in the film on a spreadsheet. I haven't finished it, (It's a really arduous task), but it's definitely been interesting so far to see how the writer (Steven Zaillian) worked in all of the characters, since the story basically bounces between Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) and Salander/The Girl with the dragon tattoo (Rooney Mara), every single scene. On top of that, each secondary character has at least one scene at least every scene or so, so the audience doesn't forget their role to play.
I also think that the way the Zaillian transitions is really neat. Almost every scene connects to one another somehow, even if it's very subtle. For example, Salander does something violent to end a scene, and then a cat turns up it's ears in Blomkvist's opening shot, connecting the two together, even though they haven't met yet. Also, the scenes are really bare bones. most scenes in the script don't last any longer than about a minute or two, and this is only broken up in a few scenes, like the reveal of the killer (Martin) or the scene where Harriet explains what she was doing during the whole movie.
I finished the summary of every scene this week, and I plan on creating more detail this week. I think there's three prongs to the storyline: 1. Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) has a personal character arc and journey. 2. Salander (Rooney Mara) has her own character arc. 3. The murder mystery. While these story strains interact with one another and affect each other, I feel like they are distinct.
I think what I'll do is take the existing summary, and split it into those three groups, so that it's clear how the different stories develop, but also how they relate.
The rest of the group is doing a few other tasks. Neale is running through the story with the Hero's journey in mind, and is looking at how it fits in. I think that my summary of Blomkvist and Salander's journeys would merge well with that work. Becca and Ben were mostly thinking about how to do an artefact of the story. They decided to set up three desks in the classroom as if they were the desks of the main characters, and have a bunch of objects from the Movie on them, all representing different parts of their characters. I think this is a neat idea, but we need to refine it more than what we have now. I recently had the idea to incorporate Blomkvist's cigarettes more into the art piece, and we could maybe have each story segment relate to one of the cigarettes he smokes.
For now, though, we just have to present last week's work. I'll have to review everything since it's been so long, but I feel relatively confident that I can present it, although I have no idea how to fit into 20 second pieces like Blackboard advised.
I finished the summary of every scene this week, and I plan on creating more detail this week. I think there's three prongs to the storyline: 1. Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) has a personal character arc and journey. 2. Salander (Rooney Mara) has her own character arc. 3. The murder mystery. While these story strains interact with one another and affect each other, I feel like they are distinct.
I think what I'll do is take the existing summary, and split it into those three groups, so that it's clear how the different stories develop, but also how they relate.
The rest of the group is doing a few other tasks. Neale is running through the story with the Hero's journey in mind, and is looking at how it fits in. I think that my summary of Blomkvist and Salander's journeys would merge well with that work. Becca and Ben were mostly thinking about how to do an artefact of the story. They decided to set up three desks in the classroom as if they were the desks of the main characters, and have a bunch of objects from the Movie on them, all representing different parts of their characters. I think this is a neat idea, but we need to refine it more than what we have now. I recently had the idea to incorporate Blomkvist's cigarettes more into the art piece, and we could maybe have each story segment relate to one of the cigarettes he smokes.
For now, though, we just have to present last week's work. I'll have to review everything since it's been so long, but I feel relatively confident that I can present it, although I have no idea how to fit into 20 second pieces like Blackboard advised.
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