What should I do for my Screenwriting presentation?
Posted by adminMar 14
In a Careers class, we must do a presentation on a career of our choice. I chose Screenwriting. In addition, we are supposed to bring in something to help our presentation. For example, if you did veterinarian you could bring in a dog or something.
What should I bring into class?
When I was in NYC once this street vendor sold old movie scripts. I bought “Taxi-Driver” (Robert Deniro). It was pretty cool because it had a couple of scenes that were never put it into the final movie version and it gave me some insight into the film’s development process. Maybe you could get something like that.
Aswell as scripts or extracts from them, bring clips from the same films so you can show these and then break them down and show how it started using the clips.
What I’d do is bring in a produced script (say, “Good Will Hunting”) and also bring in an identically bound script of blank pages. Flip through the blank script: “This is Good Will Hunting”. Flip through the produced script: “This is Good Will Hunting after the screenwriters got done with it. Any questions?”
I.e. demonstrate that without the screenwriter there is nothing.