Authorship Essay

So today we were set our essay questions for Authorship, Why do texts need an identifiable author in the first place. I decided this time, after last year, to work very hard on my preliminary reading and thus gain a wider and more learned viewpoint on the subject. I read at least seven books on the subject and felt I had really gained the knowledge needed to answer the question fully, having written all my notes out I started pieceing together notes and theories into a workable structure.

Coming up with a TV series

I pitched the guys my TV episode idea today, a crazy idea based around a very difficult to sell 'high concept' as those in the industry would call it. Thrown out, but I feel as though this idea may still work somewhere down the road, and it is not as if my pitch wasn't liked, it just wasn't right and I am finally learn how to accept such things in my life.

We did finally agree on an idea based around a famous family of Mixed Martial Arts fighters, this story and idea had legs, and the deeper I researched the better I felt about this.

Finished summer project script

Excitedly the script is done after me and James worked very hard on it for three days in the library, breaking jokes and generally looking very strange laughing all the time in the quiet hardworking library. I enjoyed working with someone else a lot and I think it may well be something I would want to do more in the future.

Results of Audiences script and essay and Summer Project

The results for this assignment were absolute bullshit. It appears as though I missed out on a 1st in my essay because I didn't include page numbers in all my references. This seems entirely unfair, but I understand the bureaucratic nature of this country.

The results of my script are even more infuriating. Apparently my idea is suspiciously like something I have never heard of in my life. The marker didn't understand any single part of a fairly complicated script and marked it down according to this. Once again picking up on me not giving everything away, something I had decided to do due to it not being important to the characters or story. Fair enough the ending might have been tighter but in the time I had it was as good as it could ever have been. This result has not encouraged me at all, the analysis was contrived, poorly explained, overly critical, not at all positive and even included misspellings.

Onto better things: Me and my summer project group have settled on an idea and I will start top write it this very day. It is quite and exciting project with lots of work to do and fun to have.

Finished 40 minute script and essay for Audiences

The essay this time was far more what I was used to and I worked very hard to read as much reading material as I could possibly find. I feel I have done a good job on answering the question and I believe, after comparing it to my Images essay, it is a much stronger essay.

The script, after writing two drafts, is clearly the strongest work I have ever written. It is quirky, well-written, enticing, original and has some great characters. The only thing I would say is that the ending isn't as strong as I wish it could be, it feels almost like the beginning of a series. The mystery contained in the film gets no real conclusion, because in the script itu becomes clear that it is not the mystery that is important but how it affects the characters.

Script and essay results

The essay result was as expected but the script was very unfairly marked. First of all the marker claims that my mother character is still stereotypical, which I highly argue with, there is absolutely nothing about her which is stereotypical. The marker claims that she is "saddled" with all the exposition like that she was married for 22 years, this isn't exposition in my eyes; I mean I don't know how long my parents were married. Further to that ther marker says that the framing device used isn't good, even though in our tutorials she said it was good. Generally the ending let me down as well, which I can accept.

Finished script and essay for Narratives

The script has turned out much better, the mother is far less stereotypical and is in fact interesting, and the ending has been greatly improved with my main character far more involved. However I still feel the ending could do with some work, but nothing else seems to fit.

The essay this time was far more difficult as it was a very specifically scipt theory based question not a more general theory question. This led me to, I think, ramble in places as I wasn't sure in what direction I needed to go to fulfill the answer best.

Narratives

The narrative script first draft has been written and I went to a tutorial where I was given an interesting critique of my work. I feel that the tutor, however, cares a lot more for the plot holes in my script than the characterisation and overall theme of the script, which is at odds with the general advice given to us in lectures ("character, character, character"). The plot holes are less plot holes than things that aren't necessary to explain and the explanation of which may well detract from the overall story. So I have decided to ignore those comments.

Her other comments were very relevant. Firstly to make the main character more important to the climax and denouement of the story, and secondly to make the mother's character less of a stereotype.

Results of Images

I was very encouraged by my results and found the resultsu to be accurate and fair. I just need to work on my ability at wrapping u narratives and making my second act more engrossing.