final blog post

During this blog, I learned about how writing is incorportated into movies and cinema. It gave me a new way of looking at writing, because all of the essays and papers I have had to write in my high school and college career were mostly academic papers. The writng mentality is very different when trying to create a character on screen.

When writing an academic or research paper, one has to sound sophisticated and intelligent. They should mostly follow all the rules of grammar and other guidelines that have been taught in english classes. One has to be able to give the proper information, while also trying to make your paper interesting and not boring to read. If you are writing a personal essay, you need to bring your expereinces and emotions to life, so that the reader will understand you and be engaged.

When writing for a movie, the writer needs to focus on bringing an entirely fictional character to life. They need to create an adequate script for him, and make sure that every line he or she says is "in-character". If the character is written as funny, the writers need to supply that character with an ample amount of jokes through-out the film so the audience is entertained all the way through. A comedy can not simply stop being funny half way through. If the character is written as serious, then he must have certain qualities that make him likeable, for it is very rare that we encounter and unlikeable and uncharismatic protagonist.

I've also discovered that writing in the form of character development is one of the hardest things for a cinema writer to pull off. The writers must first establish a prime character with a noticeable personality. Then the writers must have that charatcer interact with other charatcers or events that happen so that the charatcer can have a noticeable personality shift. Although, many movies try to get their characters to change, not all of them come off as believeable because the of the events that occured earlier in the film did not mesh correctly, or the change was too sudden with no build up. As I was writing about films for this blog, I noticed al ot of them focused on having character development. In the Dark Knight, Harvey Dent went from being a noble crime fighting district attorney, to one of the films villains. However, due to what he went through and the changes that occured through out his life during the film, this change did not feel out of character. In the movie Up, the main protagonist Carl Fredrickson goes from being a grumpy old man, to becoming a softer and kinder human being because of his interaction with Russel.

Another thing I learned from this blog is that creating the plot of a film is a lot like creative writing. There needs to be an engaging story that has no, or atleast a few plot holes to make it work. Also, there can be more than one person who gives suggentions and helps with the piece, just like in film there is usually never just one writer wo takes credit for the story.

All in all, this blog helped me see that writing can come in mnay different forms and there are many ways in which it can go wrong or right.