Halahan
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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This just came up today for me, which I will tell you in a second, but Do you do Planning or Outlines?
I personally do not like outlines for stories or any planning, because then I feel slightly more constricted even if I know I can change it. It's like I have a vague Idea in my head of the plot and characters and such, but I never write them down. It makes me be less imaganative, because I already finished the basic idea in my head.
Anyway, heres how this kinda've came up. (you dont have to read this, but you should)
I got an F on a storyboard thing for P.I. Reading Class for a one minute Movie on Moviemaker about dolphins. (I have a 4.0, but anyways) I was really mad, because I had still done it, I had for ex. the first slide box put, "Title, Good Pic of Dolphins in Background." I was thinking more its order and the more basic stuff, but she wanted (the teacher) more then that. I guess why I didn't put that much effort into it was that I didn't think the storyboard was worth doing. Like... lets see... how to word this... If you write it down on paper, then it wastes twice as much time because, even though you have a clear idea of what your going to do, its much more efficent to do it in the actual moviemaker because then you can clearly see it and edit it and see how it fits... I'm sometimes bad at things like this (also at basketball practice) because I "apply it to the situation," as in if I'm trying to learn something but it doesn't work as well or just is stupid or shouldn't be done in a situation, then I do what I see fit, even if thats not what im supposed to do. Me and my mom were arguing about it. But It just didn't apply to the situation that I should outline it because it is much mroe simpler and efficient to do it in MovieMaker. This is not necisarrily the same for stories, but I wanted to tell it.
I personally do not like outlines for stories or any planning, because then I feel slightly more constricted even if I know I can change it. It's like I have a vague Idea in my head of the plot and characters and such, but I never write them down. It makes me be less imaganative, because I already finished the basic idea in my head.
Anyway, heres how this kinda've came up. (you dont have to read this, but you should)
I got an F on a storyboard thing for P.I. Reading Class for a one minute Movie on Moviemaker about dolphins. (I have a 4.0, but anyways) I was really mad, because I had still done it, I had for ex. the first slide box put, "Title, Good Pic of Dolphins in Background." I was thinking more its order and the more basic stuff, but she wanted (the teacher) more then that. I guess why I didn't put that much effort into it was that I didn't think the storyboard was worth doing. Like... lets see... how to word this... If you write it down on paper, then it wastes twice as much time because, even though you have a clear idea of what your going to do, its much more efficent to do it in the actual moviemaker because then you can clearly see it and edit it and see how it fits... I'm sometimes bad at things like this (also at basketball practice) because I "apply it to the situation," as in if I'm trying to learn something but it doesn't work as well or just is stupid or shouldn't be done in a situation, then I do what I see fit, even if thats not what im supposed to do. Me and my mom were arguing about it. But It just didn't apply to the situation that I should outline it because it is much mroe simpler and efficient to do it in MovieMaker. This is not necisarrily the same for stories, but I wanted to tell it.