Another week has passed and a lot less sleep has occured than it did in previous weeks, mainly because I had a dissertation draft to hand-in. I had a tutorial at uni for which I had to produce a step-outline, a detailed scene-by-scene list. I had this written out on my bedroom door for a long time, with colour coded cards for each act of the film. This helped me to have fresh eyes look at it every morning and move scenes around or take scenes out if they didn't make sense. When I went into the meeting I felt quite nervous that the outline was going to be lambasted by my tutor but the reaction was totally the opposite. I was told that it was a quite brilliant piece of work and my tutor even admitted to getting emotional towards the end of reading it. I gained a great deal of confidence from this, for once, I had a film idea, which has garnered universal appeal from all that have read about it and discussed it with me. Confidence in my work, is something I have never really had and is something I have been told I will need to have in order to build my way up the ladder. With me giving my work to people to read more often, it has enabled me to be able to talk about my ideas openly and listen to their reactions. With this in mind I have been able to mold my ideas into far better pieces of work and Otis has become first of, hopefully, many fruits of labour.
If anyone would like to read my step-outline just drop me a line and I will send you a copy.
Next week I shall be posting another new synopsis, which has seen me deviate from my usual style and is a bit of an experiment.
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