Friday, January 9, 2009

Direction

I've recently formed a screenwriting group here in Ithaca, and at our first informal meeting I confessed that I was struggling with the direction for this documentary. Should it be a standard "EFL in Korea doco" or a more personal film. Immediately the response I received was to go for the personal film and use the interviews as extras. So in essence, make two programs - the main one my personal experience, the shorter one more of a "how to" that can go on the DVD. This seems a simple solution, one that I am very happy with.

So I am focusing my scriptwriting on my own experience rather than a "how to" or straightforward expose. My journal entries from my year there and my return in '07 have already provided a lot of great material - now for organizing it.

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