Point One ... Point Two...

Why is it that I had such a hard time making this powerpoint script interesting? Maybe in my mind corporate=boring. Or I think corporate should be boring because it's for a business, and they have script policies about standards and keeping things professional.

I kept forgetting this video was for college freshman. Freshman are still fun, they don't want to watch something professional ... they want to watch something fun. Unfortunately for them, I'm not good at writing fun. I'm so stuck in the mindset of keeping it formal.

A Kid's Point of View

For my final project I decided to write a children's television show. The idea came when I didn't really want to do any of the other options, and I decided that kids are fun and they don't know big words. I talked with my friends for ideas, about characters and names (I'm not good at naming things ... as a point of reference, my beta fish is named Fish.). Anyway, I developed an idea of an education show that teaches kids about plants, animals, and places they don't see everyday. The show is called Out of this World, and is hosted by an adventurous panda bear named Bamboo.

Writing the first draft was not as difficult as I thought it would be. Like I said before, kids still don't know a lot of stuff, so writing simply, is the only good way to communicate to them. Using short concise sentences with words they would understand was pretty simple. It's easy to make something conversational when there are two characters talking to each other. I just kept imagining that the characters were real... what would they say to each other? I also developed personalities and ideas of how each character would talk. That made it more fun, because I could hear the characters talking.

Overall, I was pretty happy with my first draft... and I had a lot of fun writing it!

Endpoint

Endpoint: the final stage of a period or process

3 weeks of class left. I'd say that's the final stage of the semester. We only have a few more writing assignments left in Media Scriptwriting. It's hard to believe most of the class is over, we've climbed the hill, started coming back down, and the end is in sight now. We've written a lot of scripts up to this point ... a lot. But looking back, it hasn't been too bad. I think each script gets a little easier than the previous, but each one has its own challenges.

• Radio advertising: must be brief and descriptive ... challenge: audience can't see product, so more descriptions are needed
• Radio promotion: building up an image ... challenge: determining what the stations represents
• Television advertising: still needs brevity introduces pictures ... challenge: effectively combining audio and video
• News [for radio]: quick stories with actualities ... challenge: fitting everything in the time necessary with all the information
• News [for television]: writing to the video you have ... challenge: sometimes video doesn't match the story you want to tell

So far, so good. Only a few assignments left, including a script on "How NOT to use Powerpoint" ... which I think will be fun since so many people misuse powerpoint. I will enjoy this.