The Meeting
To create a 2min fictional film and a 10 page script about the meeting of 2 characters. It should be set in 1 location (confined space)
A good Scripts key ingredients are:
- Characters - the subject the audience focuses or follows through the story.
- Location - where the story is set.
- Sounds - diegetic (actual)/non-diegetic(added for effects)
- Story - a sequence of events that has a beginning, middle and end.
- Plot - encapsulates the idea. (usually in around 25 words)
- Theme - What topic does it contain
A story consists of:
Great storytelling involves a goal that is no longer wanted.
Problem - Problems the characters face and overcome or not
Change - Character must change through Physical, Sociological or Psychological to make it believable and valid to the audience.
The world the audience understood from the start must be different by the end.
Problem/Need - to create drama
Problem - the difficulty the protagonist is in at the start of the story
Need - inner problem which is PREVENTING the protagonist from having a better life
Desire/Wants
Desire - what the protagonist wants (the goal) and seeks through the story.
Motive - Why does the protagonist want the goal.
Stakes - What happens IF the protagonist fails or succeeds. The Bigger the Stake, the better the story.
Pitch (Hook) - encapsulating the idea
Key elements:
A. Setting
B. Theme
C. Genre
Soft by Simon Ellis
To create a pitch, choose a range of words that best describe the story.
- Father and son relationship
- Small town
- Class war
- Bullies
- Intense
- Fear
- Violence
- Trapped
- Realistic
- Topical
- Courage
- Family Home
My Pitch for soft -
The transition of a relationship between a father and son confronting everyday modern life in a class war.
Homework
Find a recent newspaper article and write a pitch based on the article.
The Pitch
In a club abroad, a group of lower classed youths caught up in a drug raid end up facing death row. Will they ever come home?
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