Session 3 - Working With A Screen Writer To Write Our Script - 2/5/12

We started off the session with a name game. Everybody said their name and their favourite film. We all had really great taste in films.

Introducing a script writer:
We were introduced to Tom who is a screen and script writer. He told us a bit about what his job entaled and answered any questions that we had for him.

Where have you written plays for?
The Arcola Theatre

How much money do you get?
Not much for theatre but there is much more money in writing for television.

Introducing our story to Tom:
We broke down our storyline for Tom. It is the story of a boy and his friend, the boy is under peer pressure to join a gang and his friend wants to help so seeks advice from his parents. Will he or won't he? Our message is: it stops with us!

We discussed our feelings on gang culture:
- It's wrong
- Parents need to think twice before they let their kids out

What does a script look like?:
We looked at a script from a scene in Spiderman and read through it. This was to give us an idea of what everything meant and how it all worked.

We then watched the clip that the script was from and everyone agreed that it was really clever and that they had changed some of the dialogue. Scripts are to give everyone direction and act like a blue print. Sometimes improvising means that you get some brilliant dialogue.

A script describes what the scene will look like and sets it all up.



Improvising dialogue:
For the final part of the session we did some improvisation for our first scene. This was so that we could get some dialogue for our script.