Today in class, we started going over our narrative unit. We began the class by discussing and defining prose with our groups. After coming together as a class, we define prose as ‘ordinary’ and used our senior paper as an example. Our senior papers were written using prose, or ordinary language/formatting, which is what almost every (if not all) of our papers are written in. We discussed the conventions of screenwriting and found:
1. Screenplay is not equal to narratives (medium)
2. Common language among artists (collaborative)
3. Professionalism and precision
We then went on to read the screenplay, Super Teachers (found on the classroom page), and began to list the differences found in it. There were 5 major conventions we found as a class:
A. Action Blocks
B. Scene heading/ slugline
C. Characters
D. Dialogue
E. Parenthetical
After identifying the conventions of screenplays, we began going through each one and discussing what they do. Here is the breakdown:
- A
- Action blocks
- Tells us what we see or what a character will do
- B
- Scene heading/slugline
- Top of every new scene
- A.B-C
- A- INT or EXT or INT/EXT
- Interior or exterior
- B- Setting (brief)
- Example: classroom
- C- Day or night
- C
- Characters
- Names are centered
- D
- Dialogue
- E
- Parenthetical (adverb)
- Angrily to the students, excitedly
In Mr. River’s example screenplay, we looked at the first action block, specifically the last sentence. We discussed how action blocks should describe what we should see and then were tasked to change the sentence to better reflect the purpose of action blocks. Once we rewrote the sentence, we were asked to post them as a comment on Google Classroom. Here is my group’s example:
Original: He considers how he’ll teach students to uploads their screenplays.
Group example of new sentence: He continuously scans between the paper in his hand and the computer screen, with the words “How to Upload a Screenplay” heading both of the articles.
Today’s class was spent analyzing a form of writing/ writing style that differs from what we are used to. We were tasked with identifying the patterns, or conventions, that differ from ‘the norm’, something that I think we will be faced with in college. College will present us with situations we are not used to, such as living away from home, large classes, lecture classes, larger workload, etc. I think it is important to identify these situations and what causes them to differ from the norm (whatever that may be for each individual) and work to understand them rather than resent them. Understanding what makes them different will allow us to develop a new perspective on them and may even help us to like them.
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