Lambrick Tech Class

Today we spent our usual Wednesday visit at a new (yet older) location… that’s right we went to HIGHSCHOOL! To be more specific we made our way down to Lambrick Park secondary, a small yet lovely high school located just a 5-minute bike ride away from my house. When we arrived at the school we got the opportunity to pick any 4 classes we wished to attend during the course of the day, and suspiciously enough I chose a tech one. The title of the tech class was “Film Media” and was taught by the lovely  Ms. Martin, however, that day we had a special guest teacher named Mr. Pelton who is an expert in the screenplay writing world. In the class, I got to learn things I had no idea were even involved in the movie industry. Some of the more technical terms I learned about screenplay writing were the definitions and specifics of certain aspects of the actual screenplay script. The definitions below are the new words I learned and what corresponds to each one:

• Logline: The thesis of a screenplay, gives detail and adds to the title
• Slugline: This shows where the scene takes place (location). The slugline is always written in caps and shows 3 main types of info, whether or not the scene is taking place inside or outside, the location and at what time of day the scene occurs at (day or night)
• Action: This is the information of the screenplay before the actual dialogue begins, it is located underneath the slugline and depicts as much information possible with the fewest amount of words
• Fade in: The first two words in a screenplay located on the left top of page
• Fade out: The last words located only at the end to signify the end
• Dialogue: This is the rest of the screenplay. The dialogue should be as natural as possible considering how people actually talk in conversations.

In all this class was very informational driven and not very hands-onpractical work, I am still glad I sat on it because I learned so much about media and film I did not know existed.