UNIT 1-Part B

The Walking Dead

http://www.simplyscripts.com/scripts/TheWalkingDeadHunted.pdf

I have found a script from The Walking Dead, I will be printing this script off and going through 1 page of the script and analysing the sections, by circling things that are vital to use in scripts. This will be a good start to my challenge is, by analysing scripts and learning how to lay them out.

As you can see I have circled and wrote the most important things of this script, with the character names, actions and location being in capitals as this is the most important things the actors should know when reading and acting.

 

Layout of Scripts

To help me with my arts challenge on how to present and write scripts, to help me learn more understanding, I have researched how to layout a script into Google.

http://www.storyinsight.com/profession/business/layout.html 

I went into further research in how to layout a script correctly. I found another website that showed me step by step on how to present the script.

http://www.scriptologist.com/Magazine/Formatting/formatting.html

Here is an example of a script and how to create one using the instructions that were mentioned in the guide.

From this research it has gave me a better understanding on how scripts are presented and will help me when I'm creating my scripts and also when reading scripts.

 

Media script

 

This is a script that me and my group have been working on for our film trailer that we are currently filming for our course. We have all contributed to creating the script and adding our ideas. This has gave me a better idea and helped me with how scripts are laid out and how to present/write them. It was quite difficult at first to figure how to present and to layout the script, I finally got the hang of it and it became quite easy and simple.

 

 

 

Katie walking home from school

I have made another script to practise my presentation skills on creating scripts. I have used this website- http://www.keithloh.com/writing/filmscript/templates.html -for the basic template of the script, for the correct font style, size and colour. I have deleted the template style out and created my own short film of a young girl called Katie walking home from school, the story isn't well developed as I was experimenting with the presentation skills of the script.

 

 

Creative Writing script
This is a script that I have been creating based on my creative writing story that I have created for my coursework at college. I have changed some of the story around to add more dialogue into the script to make it seem more interesting.

 

Creative writing script 2

In my college I am studying AS level Creative writing. In the lesson on Tuesday we have started looking at scripts and how they are presenting to experiment with different types of writing. I think this has helped me with my arts challenge as this has taught me new things on what I didn't know about scripts. I made annotations and notes to what was said and what we learnt.

Here I learnt what size the text has to be when writing a script and the specific font which is courier. We went through the basic parts of a script such as when you are writing a heading and setting a scene.

We went through the stage directions on where it is put in the script which I didn't know about well before.

Here we was given a sheet with different keywords that are important when writing a script and explaining on which each of them mean. This will be helpful when I come to writing more scripts as this could be a checklist for me.

I have transformed some story that I am working on in Creative Writing and changed it into a script which I found was quite interesting however, a lot harder than I thought it would be. 

 

 

Reviewing my Arts Challenge

 

During the course, my arts challenge was to study script writing and get better at it as it was a weak spot, in filming. I wasn't very good at script writing as I found it confusing, wasn't sure how to lay it out and my English skills have never been strong to form good structured stories. From setting myself this challenge, it has been a hard challenge to work at as it's not something I'd choose to do or work on. By reviewing different scripts from my favourite TV series 'The Walking Dead', it isn't as difficult as I thought, it's like writing a story but adding a few stage directions in and less description on what's happening so the actors don't get confused. I have also created small drafts of scripts which have given me more practiced on how to layout scripts and how to write them. I have then developed one of my creative writing stories and changed it into a script which was interesting to develop. This challenge has helped me and gave me a better understanding on script writing on how to write them, what to include, how to present them and the unique layout of them.


Feedback from my Arts Challenge

 

Matthew has gave me feedback on my arts challenge, on what his opinion is on my challenge and how I've completed it. 

My response to the feedback of Matthew.