Becoming a scriptwriter

"Class, for one of your projects, you need to do a short video or an advertisement for a product."

"What?" is what I had in mind.

I've never done any of these, nor I've had any interest in doing a video, for fun or for a class assignment. I used to participate in school theatre and drama during highschool, but making a video is a totally different thing. When drama has a quite flexibility in storyline, and sometimes spontaneous act can be so admirable, a storyboard for a short story or video entitles a different criteria to make it interesting. And plus, you need skills in video editing and cinematography.

We chose to make an ad for "Awal Muharram / Maal Hijrah" celebration since an ad for a product is quite hard, and for other festivals, I think they are too mainstream/cliché.

I was in charge to write the storyboard and the script. I have a few ideas while I was browsing the youtube searching for meaningful ad/video for hari raya/chinese new year/deepavali celebration as well as watching videos made by famous vloggers, trying to search for an inspiration.

A 3 minutes video. Trying to connect a plot with something not to cliché, interesting enough to deliver the message of "Hijrah", not too many dialogues, short plot (due to time constrain) and well, I prefer something that is more abstract (not too straightforward) and also something that we have in our daily lives (a problem, a culture, something like that, involving society).

We barely have a month to do things from scratch, from making a storyboard to filming to finalizing the video but I'm already stuck at the first phase, the storyboard. It's a huge responsibility, and I don't know why I accepted it. If you fail to produce a good plot, you'll be filming crap.

Sigh.

Yeah, sigh, but I have a thing in mind. Hope so.

p/s: writing a story for a book is much more easier than to produce something that needs filming. Aigoo~