Today’s lesson is all about storyboarding the narrative you chose yesterday and thinking about the dialogue that will occur in your film.
In your groups I would like you to have finished your storyboard and started you script by the end of the lesson.
For your storyboard I would like you to draw the a shot that best illustrates the action in each scene. It is important to remember that a scene is everything that happens in one location and a shot is one continuous bit if filming that runs uninterrupted for a period of time. A scene can have one shot or it have have twenty shots, it depends on how the film maker wants to tell their story.
When you write your script you need to work to the principal that less is more. Think about black hole or Bomb! there is very little dialogue; the story is told primarily through the actions of the characters. Your script should contain more stage direction that dialogue.
Example script from Twin Peaks first episode
(Deputy Andy takes a big bite of his plum frappe turnover, just as Dale Cooper breezes through the front door and waves brightly as he passes.)
COOPER
Morning, deputy.
ANDY
(his mouth completely full) Good morning, Agent Cooper.
(Lucy, at the coffee station holding a pot and a cup, turns to face Cooper, with a doughnut stuck in her mouth.)
COOPER
Hey there, Lucy.
LUCY
(barely intelligible) Agent Cooper, I got jelly for you special, the Sheriff’s down the hall in Interrogation.
COOPER
I’ll just look for him down in Interrogation.
(He moves down the hall.)
