Film's Cool Kate Hardie- session 1
Today was the first session of Film's Cool. We had a very successful and experienced writer/actress come in called Kate Hardie. Kate came in and gave us advice about how to structure your ideas about a narrative and how we could apply it to a genre after. She told us to use a plot that we can relate to so we have information about the narrative. She gave us an example of how she thought of a plot about being a single mum with a teenage son, she then added the genre of horror to her plot which changed the feel of the story being about a single mum it became a story about a boy who lives with his mother and they both have to move locations every month, everywhere they go people are killed.... The plot then goes on and it is revealed that the mum is a werewolf and kills people every full-moon giving the reason why they have to move house.
We then tried to create our own plots, to do this we thought about our own hopes and fears for the future, what interests us in life or a significant event that has happened in our life so that when we create a plot it will be about something that we can relate to and also expand on as we already have that information.
I came up with the idea to write about a young girl living in the world trying to achieve her dream of becoming a professional dancer and having the fear that she wont make to where she wants to be. To develop this idea I added the horror genre to this plot and made the main protagonist so obsessed with getting to were she wants to be in life that she would do anything to get there, so when she goes to auditions she ends up killing her opponents so that she can get the main role.
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