Script format can be downloaded from the Blackboard.
scene based upon the characters and the actions from their proposed game. The script
must be properly formatted and include both sound and visual cues. The scripts should
allude to the characters’ Motivations, Objectives, Intentions and Urgency. The scripts will
be turned in at the beginning of lab of Week Three.
First:
Image a 2-3 minute scene from the game your group developed in Project #2.
Second:
Imagine if you turned the game into a film. Who would the audience be? What genre
would the movie be?
Third:
Fill out the following information:
AUDIENCE:
GENRE:
GENRE ELEMENTS (what are you putting into your script that “make it” into that particular genre?):
CHARACTER OBJECTIVE:
CHARACTER INTENTION:
URGENCY IN THE SCENE:
Fourth: Image the scene with as much SOUND as possible. And make sure that you have
some dialogue in your scene so your audience understands your characters’ objective,
intentions and urgency.
Finally: Write the scene. Print it out. Turn it in with this sheet filled in and attached.
Example of formatting mistakes
ReplyDelete1. Sound should be in CAPS
2. New character's name should be in ALL CAPS the first time we meet them
3. If he "mutter..." it should be written in dialogue
4. Internal thought cannot be written into script
5. Parenthetical should contain information about how to deliver the lines, not actions.
6. Don't capitalize or underline words in dialogue
7. You should never be "just about to" do anything in a script. You either do it or you don't.
8. Time on page- if he stares for a minute, then it should describe what the audience is seeing during that minute.
9. Use active verbs
10. Use FADE OUT, not END OF SCRIPT
11. Spell#s 1-100
12. Present tense only
13. Only what we SEE/HEAR