Blog 16: Answer 2

1. What is your EQ?

What technique can be most effectively employed to create a memorable film?

2. What is your first answer?

I think the technique that can be most effectively employed to create a memorable film is successful collaboration between filmmakers--professionals in their respective fields whether it be writing, lighting, directing, cinematography, etc.--to combine their expertise.

3. What is your second answer?

Screenwriters need to be able to empathize with their audience and know what appeals to people, whether it comes to story-writing or dialogue. In addition to having a memorable or original idea, they need to be able to write something that their audience can either relate to, laugh at, be moved by, etc.

4. List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

• If the dialogue is too complex or outlandish, the audience may find it bothersome or tiresome. 
• If the story is unoriginal, viewers will lump it with other films, thus making it unmemorable. 
• A viewer may feel too removed or may not be able to enjoy the film if there is no connection with it in any way. 

5. What printed source best supports your answer?

• Scoff, Kevin Conroy. " Screenwriters' Masterclass: Screenwriters Talk About Their Greatest Movies. " New York: Newmarket Press, 2006. Print.

6.  What other source supports your answer?

• Stoller, Bryan Michael. Filmmaking For Dummies. Indianapolis: Wiley Publishing, 2009. Print
• Schellhardt, Laura. Screenwriting For Dummies. Indianapolis: Wiley Publishing, 2008. Print.

• Sternbergh, Adam. "14 Screenwriters Writing." The New York Times Company. The New York Times. 25 Nov 2013. Web. 21 Aug 2014.
• Lee, Spike. " Do The Right Thing: A Companion Volume to the Universal Pictures Film." New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. Print. 

7. Tie this together with a concluding though. 

Since I hope to professionally write films, finding sources that focusing on screenwriting and even actual scripts themselves were very important for my research. I feel that my first answer is the best, though my second answer is also equally as important, and has a large impact on the final product of a film.