Screen writing as theology

By Juan Pablo

In Chris Riley's Screenwriting class, we learned how to make our character likeable so that the audience can relate to him and root for him while on his journey towards change. There should be nothing accidentally written or haphazardly jotted down. Every action and thought of a character reveals something of that person and his ability to change into who he must become at the end of the movie.

As I thought about this, I thought about my life and how every little thing I do is representative of my true character. How I answer the phone, how I communicate with people, how I treat those in authority, how I treat the school’s administration, and how I treat my fellow student all is done by myself and these actions reveal my character. I do these things not so those around me can relate to me or root for me but for God to consider me a true son and help me change into the man I must become in order to enter his kingdom.

Writing for Stage and Screen

By Juan Pablo Ramirez

This week us Sophomores are beginning writing our scripts in Chris Riley’s Writing for Stage and Screen class. After a semester of story development, we’ll tackle all 120 pages of a typical Hollywood script. Right now we are focusing on the first 3 pages in which we hook the audience and present our main characters. Each week we get into writing groups and critique each other’s work. After this, the script goes to Chris Riley for a final critique on structure, grammar, and effectiveness. This quarter, I’m adapting one of my favorite superheroes, Richard Rider aka Nova. Let’s hope it’s awesome.

The story of Richard Rider is interesting and is similar to that of Spiderman and the Green Lantern. He is just a normal high school teen from New York who accidentally gets superpowers one day. Instead of a spider bite, Rich is bombarded with "a bolt from the blue" which sends him into a coma. He later awakens with the power to fly, super strength, super speed, energy projection, and semi-invulnerability. He later finds out that his powers were randomly bestowed on him by a dying officer of the Nova Corps, universal protectors that act like cops for this universe. Rich must take up the fight by joining the Nova Corps. or else the menace that nearly killed his benefactor will destroy earth.

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Juan Pablo
Sophomore
Media Student