Gabriella spoke about being a screenwriter and how the writer shouldn't put the shot types in the script, even if they can visualise it as the shots are the jobs of the director and cinematographer, which was something I hadn't considered before when writing scripts.
She also helped us with the idea of not having dialogue in our films, as is a requirement this year, by showing us a clip from "All Is Lost" (2013) dir. Chandor. The film has only a couple of lines of dialogue in the whole piece and so the visual storytelling is really what carries it. This is something we'll have to focus on a lot in our films. After the session, I found the script for All is Lost and read through it to get an idea of what a dialogue-less screenplay looks like. Here is the page from the excerpt we watched:
Gabriella also spoke a bit about her experience getting into the film industry, as she studied English first at university and then took a screenwriting course, which she found she was interested in. This is different to all the other industry people we have met so far.
We also found out our groups and roles today. I'm working with Iona, Matt, Matthew, Murray and Michael and have been given the role of director which is very exciting! Edwin Mingard is our tutor and as Matthew is the screenwriter he'll be bringing some ideas to Wednesday's session which will be a script developing evening.
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