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.

Session 3 - Finalising Locations, Improvising Scenes and Finishing Our Proposal

Ice-breaker
We started off the session with an ice-breaker - stop, go, jump and clap. It was really fun but really made us use our brain.

Paperwork:
We all discussed and completed our proposal form and went over what props we are going to need for our film.

Updating absent members of our group:
We went over what we all worked on in our previous session for Djed who was absent. This was so that he was kept up to date with where we were up to.

How a film set works:
We role-played the set-up of a film set so that the young people could see where everyone needs to be,
what they need to say and what they need to do on the day of filming.

Locations:
We discussed the location recce and chose the best places that will work for our film.

We then went around the school to visit and film the different locations to give us an idea of what shots will work where.

Improvising scenes:
We did some improvisation of our table tennis scene, where the bully picks on the victim whilst he plays table tennis. Everyone who was not involved in the scene, filmed it so that we could get an idea of what it would look like on the screen.

Homework:
We were all set some homework, which was to research the schools anti-bullying policy and some statistics on bullying.

Evaluating:
We finished the session by getting the group to fill in evaluation forms.