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Intro to Screen Lecture 3 - Coggle Diagram
Intro to Screen Lecture 3
Screenplay
A blueprint for production - PLAN
Everything we see and hear on screen
Prescribes location, cast, dialogue, screen action and sound effects.
Suggests camera angles, performance and edits
Plan
Roadmap for a movie
Where are we going?
Why are we going there?
How long will it take?
Who needs the plan?
Director: What is the style? Who are the characters? The genre?
Producer: how many location? How many props? What is the budget?
Actor: What is my objective? What are my lines?
Designer: What are the key images? What is the style? Key props?
Editor: What are the images? What order do they come in?
Elements
Scene heading
Screen Directions
Character
Parenthesis
Dialogue
Scene Heading
INT. KITCHEN - DAY
INT = Interior Scene
EXT. = Exterior Scene
KITCHEN - Brief consistent description of location
DAY or NIGHT or EVENING or MORNING or CONTINUOUS
Screen Directions
Only what we SEE and HEAR
Meghana and Siddharth hold hands at a café table and stare lovingly into each other's eyes. CORRECT
Meghana and Siddharth hold hands at a café table. They just got engaged. They stare into each others' eyes and wonder how they got so lucky. Their parents are so proud of them. INCORECT
Written in the present tense
Short active sentences
Describe from the perspective of character where possible
Describe in terms of action
One Paragraph = One Scene
Sue sits on a bench staring at...
A dead sparrow being eaten by ants
Terminology
O.S. off screen
V.O. Voice over
Dialogue
Lines should be as short as possible
Every line is an ACTION
Every ACTION has a REACTION
Dialogue must be broken up with screen directions