In this session at the BFI, we arrived at LS1 and we practically started playing the film almost straight away, so that we would have enough time to meet the director and then have a screenwriting masterclass with Gabriela Apiccella.
The film Born in Flames was a very interesting film that had a lot of archive footage and was based around politics and feminism. I personally connected with the film on a higher level as I feel quite strongly about how women are presented within our lives as well as in the film as whole.
when the film finished we were lucky enough to have a question and answer session with the director of the film. She was a very inspirational person and I learnt a lot from her. We spoke about the main themes in the film and how we feel strongly about each concept.
After this we had a screenwriting masterclass in which Gabriela showed us what a proper film script would look like; it has to be in size 12 and in Courier front as well as being centred. She told us about the stage directions and how they should be in italics to make it clear and distinctive from the dialogue itself.
In order to understand how to write stage directions, Gabriela showed us a couple of minutes from certain films that we analysed as a class. Cry Baby was one of the films that we analysed and she told us that we didn't have to write about lighting and other technical elements as the writers job is to tell the actor what to do.
This helped my class and I as we needed to know how to write a script professionally for when we would come to making our own films.
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