Screenwriting Step 6

Evaluation

I have finished gathering all of my research for this screenwriting unit and i think that it's safe to say that it will and has helped me tremendously.

It all started of with just brainstorming for ideas and then i came up with my final idea and i looked at all of the key elements in my final idea to research, i researched drugs, conspiracy theorys and charity's and i had a questionaire with a police officer.

Overall i think the two most reliable sources of information i gathered was the questionaire with the police officer and researching on the FRANK website.

The questionaire with the police officer was the most helpful because i went over to my local police station myself and asked the questions and got the answers which means it's 100% reliable information as its primary research i know for a fact its true because the police officer i interviewed was obviously a proffesional at what he does as he has had years of training on drugs, were as you can get secondary research and it could be false and on some unreliable websites most of the time it is false or twisted slighly or mininmal information.

After the questionaire with the police officer it should help me to develop my idea as i know exactly what could happen if someone was caught in possesion of drugs and i can make my screenplay as realistic as possible.

Researching on the FRANK website was a huge help also as this website was professionally made by people who are very knowledgable in drugs and they get all of there information from primary research, asking scientists, police officer and former addicts etc.

The thing that i liked about researching on this website is that it was easy to get around i could easily research what the most addictive and cheap drugs where and after researching drug information on this website, it allowed me to develop my idea as in my final idea its about a homeless person who is infected with HIV and he is a drug addict but i didnt have an idea on what drug he was addicted too but reading some information on FRANK i found that heroin is the most addictive drug in the world and it can be obtained cheaply and on the FRANK website it stated that it's very dangerous to share needles when injecting heroin as it can cause a risk of catching the HIV virus which was a perfect fit to my final idea.

Researching conspiracy theories was also a good attribute towards the final idea.

I started off by researching the most famous conspiracy theory which is 9/11 and from researching that i found a link to another conspiracy theory about a cancer cure which yet again i though was perfect towards my final idea as my final idea is specifically about somone who finds a cure too HIV and the goverment try everything in their power too take it away from him and after researching this cancer cure conspiracy theory it gave me a general outlook of why the goverment could be trying to take the HIV cure away from him in my screenplay.

Reading existing screenplays and screenwriting literature was a very good attribute to this unit as it helped me alot in understanding what too do when it comes to actually writing my screenplay.

Reading existing screenplays was the main way i learned how to structure my material, i leart how to introduce a scene and charecter, I also learnt when too add actions and the editing and that was the main help of reading existing screenplays which is a very good attribute as i wasnt very good atall at formatting my screenplays, all i knew i what font to do and the rest seemed abit haisy to me but now i understand it.

Also after reading existing screenplays it helps me understand how much work and effort is acctually put into the writing prosses as the screenplays i read where very long and obviously i didnt read all of them but you can scroll down and see how long they were, also the punctuation and spelling in the existing screenplays i read were very accurate and well done which i shall keep in mind when i am writing my own.

Reading screenplay literature was very good at giving information on structure and narrative and what to do with your screenplay depending on what genre you use.

I learnt alot of the structure from reading existing screenplays already but obviously the literature gave it too me in alot more clear way as with reading existing screenplays i had to realise the patterns that were made  too know how the structure worked but when i read the screenplay literature it just straight up told me how to structure it.

The most i learnt from reading literature was how the genre's work, it had alot of different information on what the narrative should be like with different genres, for example with an action genre it should be fast moving and sudden with less narrative but you still need to make room for the narrative but dont over do it were as with a horror the narrative is near enough vital and the screenplay needs to be spooky and sudden and the narrative need to be very clear and spoken out so the story is getting across to the audience therefore overall reading screenplay literature was a big help to me aswell as reading existing screenplays.

Overall the research that i did was very neccasary and very helpful, without the research i wouldnt of been able to develop my final idea and make it as realistic as i can now.

I can also make my screenplay perfect format and make sure the genre suits the narrative and performance, overall the most help to me was the questionaire with the police officer and researching on the FRANK website and reading screenwriting literature for the reasons that i have explained above therefore overall research is very important for the screenwrting process.