April 20, 2018
Yesterday for homework we had to find a scene from a movie or television series and either work with a partner or work by ourselves on a practice screenplay. Today when we entered the class, we were instructed to open up our writerduet account and then Mr. Rivers walked us through how to operate the sit. Some useful tool that Mr. Rivers gave us were as follows:
Writerduet.com guide to how to operate the site:
Ctrl + S → Saves work
File → Export → Export as PDF
File → Export → Export as PDF
Writerduet doesn’t automatically same like google drive does so every once in a while we need to save our work so to not lose any important content. For my groups’ screenplay, we chose a scene from the 2004 movie Miracle. In this scene, the players are preparing for what will be the biggest game of their lives and the lives of the United States’ citizens. The scene bounces between each nervous player and consist of only one character speaking but with camera work and musical arrangement a pregame speech is transformed into an iconic and motivational tool used by coaches, students, and etc. the scene captured every emotion and physical feeling that took place in that moment and that started by being a screenplay and then evolved into what it is today.
Our scene:
It is important to remember how to analyses/ dissect our chosen clips. These are the notes that we have taken in the past few days that can help with the construction of the screenplays:
SCREENPLAY:
A. Scene Heading (slug line)
B. Action blocks → SEEN!
C. Characters
D. Dialogue
E. Parenthetical (change, anytime that it MIGHT be unclear)(HOW? adverbs)
FORMATTING CONVENTIONS:
- Camera Control? Think about editing!
- Use sparingly (collaboration)
- CUT TO (for transitions)
- Must follow with a scene heading
- CAMERA (for movement/zooms/emphasis)
- Purpose?? (Narrative, Practical, Thematic)
It is very important that we as student learn about programs like writerduet be it may help us in our future endeavors. We also learn how the skeleton of a movie is created and provided us with perspective of how hard it is to create and produce a film.
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