Tadpole: the writing of a first feature length screenplay
Robert Mckee, Hollywood’s father of screenwriting best known for his Story Seminar, once said that “writing is a marathon, not a sprint” (Young, 2022). As the title of this paper suggests, Tadpole: The Writing of a First Feature Length Screenplay is the culmination of a year-long journey embarking o...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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Nanyang Technological University
2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/175734 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Robert Mckee, Hollywood’s father of screenwriting best known for his Story Seminar, once said that “writing is a marathon, not a sprint” (Young, 2022). As the title of this paper suggests, Tadpole: The Writing of a First Feature Length Screenplay is the culmination of a year-long journey embarking on the writing of my first feature-length screenplay, titled Tadpole.
Set against the backdrop of Singapore’s fading rural landscape amidst rapid urbanization in 2010, Tadpole is a coming-of-age story told from a child’s perspective about an unexpected friendship that blossoms in the unlikeliest of circumstances – a spirited 10-year-old child protagonist wandering the streets amidst her parents’ bitter separation finds a confidante in an equally vivacious 49-year-old proprietor of a faltering family frog farm.
This report will dissect and discuss the motivations of wanting to embark on a solo final year project, the story development and writing process, the challenges encountered, and the eventual learning outcomes of this fledgling attempt at the seemingly insurmountable feat of writing a feature-length screenplay for the first time. |
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