T.V. & New Broadcasting Media Blog - Jordan Jackson

The start of this week my group and I met to script read together. We each took a character from the script and went through it together. This was very helpful, leading to us finding quite a few mistakes made within the script- such as spelling errors, and character name mix ups. After we read the script together we then started thinking about character development, because at this point students had no personality traits or description, unlike the janitor. Therefore, we began to think about the personality of each student within our story. This will prove to be very useful when it comes time for us to act. Later that day, I went home and made several corrections to the script. Towards the end of the week one of the group members and I went shopping in search of props. We had the script, and highlighted everything from that we needed, and additionally added costumes to the prop list. We managed to buy most of the items on the prop list- some examples being: rope, tool belt, fake b...

JANITOR’S REVENGE SCREENPLAY by JORDAN JACKSON MOHAMMAD ZAIDI ANELL ENNING ANDRE SMITH NANCY ALJENDY “JANITOR’S REVENGE” EXT. OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL – MORNING ARCHIE locks the school gate. ARCHIE heads towards the Janitor’s Office, passing the dirty main hallway. ARCHIE leaves his office with his bucket and mop, and walks through the empty school corridors. ARCHIE reaches the main hallway and begins mopping the floor. ARCHIE is mopping, almost finished. BARRY SCOTT rushes into the hallway, past ARCHIE. BARRY SCOTT almost loses his footing on the slippery floor, almost slipping. He continues forwards. BARRY SCOTT Where’s the wet floor sign? BARRY SCOTT rushes off, leaving behind him muddy footprints. ARCHIE wrings his mop, and begins to mop the floor again. Sound comes from ARCHIE’S walkie-talkie. ARCHIE answers the call. ARCHIE Yes    (pause) But fixing the coffee machi...

With a completed screenplay it was time to turn it into script form. This was my first time scripting, so I was learning how to do it as I went along. I learnt the correct way to indent, line spaces, font, specifying location, and writing dialogue. I completed the script this week, however, it can only be considered the first draft because the rest of my group have not seen it yet.

Janitor’s Revenge Story by Jordan Jackson Screenplay by Jordan Jackson Anell Enning Mohammad Zaidi Wednesday morning and the bell has just gone ARCHIE locks the school gate and heads towards the Janitors office, on his way there he passes the main hallway, its grubby and lacks lustre, the floor reveals the evidence of stampeding students anxious to learn he collects his equipment to get ready for the daily job.  Its 10 o’clock and ARCHIE has almost finished mopping the main hallway, the shine from the morning sun reflects off of the floor making it look like glass.  There’s a large bang from the main door and a muddy student (BARRY SCOTT) comes rushing past ARCHIE.  BARRY SCOTT loses his footing slightly and almost falls BARRY SCOTT says to ARCHIE, ‘Where’s the wet floor sign?’. BARRY SCOTT walks to the other end of the corridor looks at the trail of dirty foot pri...

Week 4 I sat down with a member of my group, and we began script writing. As we were writing the script was more like a screenplay, so we decided to write a screenplay first and then turn it into a script later. With this method, we are taking a more narrative approach to begin with, and then can consider the technical details later, which turned out to be much easier. We started writing the screenplay with a rough idea of the story, but we only had one character so far, and lacked any real depth. However, we knew the beginning and ending, and so were simply writing Act 2 (when considering the three act structure). We went through a number of ideas, spending a few hours getting the screenplay completed.

This week it was time to pitch our film ideas. My idea I came up with was a film called 'Janitor's Revenge', in this film a school caretaker tired of his job will be harassed by some students, tipping him over the edge. Later that day the janitor will give them all a detention, seeking his revenge, after school will attempt to murder these students, None of the students will survive, and the janitor will return to work the next day as if nothing happened. I pitched this idea to the lecture group, and then to the group I will be working with during the film project. My group I have now joined liked the idea, and we have decided we will use it for our project. Now with a group, and a pitched idea, it is time to get underway with pre-production.