April 20, 2018
Today in class we practiced writing our own screen plays. We were told to pick a scene and were assigned to write one page, using the software linked on classroom. The software is pretty self explanatory, but we learned that it doesn’t save automatically. The toolbar on the left side of the screen will allow you to choose which of the 5 conventions of a screenplay you want to utilize and when you finish with each part, hitting the enter button will allow you to go to the next line. Mr. Rivers showed us this briefly and then proceeded to tell us to save our work often so we don’t lose it all and explained to us how to save it to our Google Drive. Both are found below:
Ctril + S → Saves work (save frequently as you work)
File → Export → Export as PDF (open PDF and save to drive)
We had to post a link to our screenplays on Google Classroom and, if possible, a link to the scene we wrote about.
Learning a new software in class is just another step in preparing us for the real world. It not only exposes us to (possibly) new things, but also teaches us how to adapt to change. We are not using Microsoft or Google programs, as we are used to doing, and WriterDuet shows us that change is not always a bad or scary thing. This can be a useful lesson to us as we begin to enter adulthood and will be faced with new situations in which we will have to deal with change and straying from the norm. Instead of presenting us with change, the software is a helpful program that is making writing a screenplay extremely easy and less time consuming. It will be very useful when it comes time for us to write our own because it will allow us to focus more on our creativity and less on the format of the script.
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