Advanced: Yesterday’s Meeting, Monday’s Script

If you weren’t part of the meeting yesterday, watch the video by clicking these fancy looking words. There’s a cameo appearance by my cat Sebastian! And a lot of useful info about the rest of the school year! Additionally, keep in mind that your scripts are due Monday. At this point, 14 out of 29…

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Advanced: At Home Scripts and Meeting Tomorrow

At this point, only 8 out of 29 of you have signed up for a genre on the screenplay project. Go to https://classroom.google.com/u/1/c/NDEzMzQxMTU3OTda/a/Njk0MzY5ODA3Njda/details to read about the script assignment. Then go to the genre choices file linked below to choose which genre you want to write (https://bit.ly/2Ryz9wv). Don’t forget that tomorrow, we have our class…

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Advanced: Let’s Do What We Do Best

Watch the video above. We have five weeks to make a movie. We’re doing it. We start with a screenplay. We need a screenplay. We need a screenplay that we can shoot with the equipment we have. So let’s make it a movie that takes place during some kind of video call. This can be…

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Screenplays

One of the best ways to get better at writing is to read more. Below are links to fifteen amazing screenplays. Pay attention to how the dialogue says more than the characters do and how what they don’t say is as important as what they do say. Read the action and notice how they set…

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Advanced Classes Homework: Read Mr. Rauscher’s Script

Over the long weekend, you have one assignment: to read Mr. Rauscher’s script, “TheTitle of Whichever Green Day Song Plays in the Scene on Page 99.”. He wrote this almost 20 years ago and tried to sell it without success. Read it and be prepared to critique it on Monday. You can find the script…

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Studio Productions – Screenplay

Everybody in Studio Productions is teaming up with a partner to write a screenplay. It needs to be 6-10 pages and it is due by 11:59pm on Sunday, November 24th. You need to use proper story structure, which you can read about in the slideshow. It also has to be in proper script format. You…

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This Year’s Projects

It’s official! The films for this year have been chosen. The Advanced classes will spend the entire year producing these large projects with students writing, producing, shooting, and editing the entire productions. We’ll be choosing the directors over the next week. 4th hour, Advanced Movie Making, will produce: “The Worst in Me,” written and directed…

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