HOME SCREENPLAY Report P.P #15 MYP 2020-2021 Colegio Tilatá, La Calera Table of content Introduction ................................................................................................................ 2 Research ..................................................................................................................... 3 Planning ....................................................................................................................... 6 Action ........................................................................................................................ 10 Reflection .................................................................................................................. 16 Annexes ..................................................................................................................... 18 Annex 1 ........................................................................................................................... 18 Annex 2 ........................................................................................................................... 19 Annex 3 ........................................................................................................................... 21 Annex 4 ........................................................................................................................... 22 Annex 5 ........................................................................................................................... 23 Annex 6 ........................................................................................................................... 23 Annex 7 ........................................................................................................................... 24 Annex 8: .......................................................................................................................... 25 Annex 8.1 .............................................................................................................................. 25 Annex 8.2 .............................................................................................................................. 25 Annex 8.3 .............................................................................................................................. 26 Annex 8.4 .............................................................................................................................. 26 Annex 8.5 .............................................................................................................................. 27 Annex 8.6 .............................................................................................................................. 27 Annex 8.7 .............................................................................................................................. 27 Annex 8.6 .............................................................................................................................. 27 Annex 8.9 .............................................................................................................................. 28 Annex 8.8 .............................................................................................................................. 28 Annex 8.10 ............................................................................................................................ 29 Appendixes ................................................................................................................ 30 Bibliography .............................................................................................................. 40 1 Introduction Art is a way of expressing ideas, feelings, beliefs, or values. Every single type of art like music, drawing, painting, writing, photography, acting or dancing, are just ways to express what someone thinks or feels. In addition to that, one kind of art can gather all the art types mentioned before: Cinema. Films are ways to tell stories in the audiovisual media. Here, the Directors express beliefs, feelings and ideas. The first step to make a film is the script. This defines the story, the characters, dialogues, actions, etc. On the other hand, the personal project is a space to develop some of your own ideas. and to make it possible, there are stages that must be met to create a good project. These stages are Researching, Planning, Action and Reflection. In my case, as a personal project, I wanted to create a movie: Home. With it, I wanted to express my ideas about human behaviors such as revenge, rage, and contamination. And because the filmmaking begins with the script this personal project is focused on the writing of the science fiction film HOME. Now, In this report, you will see how the Project stages were applied in Home. 2 Research The personal project is a space where you can make real some of your ideas and/or dreams. This personal project focuses on writing the script for the sci-fi movie Home. This idea was born thanks to my personal interest in cinema, filming, screenwriting, the universe, and an inspiration after watching Interstellar, by Christopher Nolan. Also, thanks to an initiative to revolutionize Colombian cinema (in Colombia there have been no science fiction films that address issues about the universe or travel to other planets). These could define an objective: Starting in August 2020, and ending between February and March 2021, research: how to write a film, sciences and arts to create the script for the science fiction movie HOME, in order to express my ideas about inequality, pollution and revenge, through a story that talks about leaving our planet earth due to air quality (explained in appendix 1). Thus, the global context related to my product was: Personal and cultural expression. The exploration was: Ways in which we discover and express Ideas, feelings, beliefs, values (even though the film contains science and technology themes, the main purpose of movies is to 3 express ideas, feelings, beliefs, values, increasing personal and cultural expression). But why is this a "personal project"? This was not just a movie script. As In the personal project you can make some of your ideas, dreams and goals come true, this script was a personal dream. It was the first step to develop the science fiction film HOME. The story of the film was completely original, and it challenged me to a great extent, increasing thinking, social, communication, self-management, and research skills. My interest in the audiovisual media has increased my curiosity, and consequently, I have done research, I have seen masterclasses and I have read scripts, which have given me basic knowledge on the subject. Some life experiences have helped me to deepen a little more in this medium, I have participated in plays and I have written short scripts. The Interstellar movie inspired me with the story. I have also had MYP classes, which have helped me to think about the product: theater classes have helped me to write scripts, to understand how to create stories to express something and to tell this to the public. Physics, chemistry and biology classes created my passion for the universe. Spanish and philosophy gave me a new way of thinking in front of society, in front of the planet and in front of the entire universe. The personal project also helped me develop inquiry skills. Inquiry skills before the project: “Access information to stay informed and inform others (usually, and before the project, I inquire about different topics, what helps me to inform others)”, “find information in different media (all the MYP years taught me that information isn’t always on the Internet. It’s also in books, movies, etc.)”, 4 “establish connections between different sources (this is a method I used in other MYP years to prove sources’s information)” and “identify primary and secondary sources (specially Colombian history taught me to recognize primary and secondary sources)”. Inquiry skills developed during the project : “Read critically to understand (this was something very required in the personal project. As it was a research process, I had to verify every source that I used)” and “be precise in your citations and prepare a bibliography according to unknown conventions (Claudia Sabogal, the librarian, taught us how to cite and reference well)”. Every source used in this project was verified thanks to tools provided by the librarian Claudia Sabogal (notes in appendix 3 and 4): Use of primary sources (First atoms of antimatter produced at CERN), written by organizations (The NERVA Nuclear Rocket Reactor Program, Westinghouse ENGINEER), academic sources (Black holes. Salem Press Primary Encyclopedia) and looking in two or more sources to compare information (SCRIPT FORMAT The easy guide compared with How to Write a Movie Script: Screenplay Format and Examples). Although there are more sources, these are some examples to show how I verified their veracity. For more examples see appendix 5 and bibliography. 5 Planning The personal project offers a growth in organization, planning, self-evaluation, and self-development abilities. This means that every personal project has to have a product, schedules and evaluation criteria. Let's talk first about self-evaluation for my science fiction script. The self-evaluation is based on evaluation criteria. The role of evaluation criteria is to shape the product and determine which things it would have, and which not based