Reece Carbutt-Beech (4036)

Before I started to plan my script I created a  powerpoint  about the planning for the script that outlines what I am going to do (see below for pictures and follow the link for the actual PowerPoint) so that I could get feedback. I will be using the feedback to see different things that I need to include in my planning that I may not have considered. This included not being clear enough about the target audience.  As a result of the feedback I received I have decided to create a survey that will ask people about their horror movie interests. This will help me to see what types of horror movie people in my age group enjoy and what I can change to make it appeal to a wider range of people. I decided to annotate the brief that I've been given to see what it says about target audiences before I created the survey. The survey asks a range of questions aimed at finding out what my demographic is. It asks about gender, age and ho...

Before I started planning my script I first needed to ensure that I had a clear idea of what I am writing about. This included making a mind-map for any other ideas that I could write, to help ensure that the script I write is the best one that I can possibly do, as well as taking ideas from the mind map and developing them more. Making a mind-map As you can see from the picture above I had 4 ideas. I will decide to develop 2 of them more and then decide on my final idea. Students hate their teacher, they go to desperate lengths to get rid of them. In their attempts they end up 'killing' the teacher. The teacher would then start to show them what the consequences of their actions would be if they had actually killed them. - I won't be developing this idea further because I don't think that it would end up being a true horror film. For that I think that the teacher would have to actually die and become a ghost. A teacher kidnaps students and sells them on the...

Reformatting a Script As a class we were given an extract of a stage-play that we had to convert into a script in the correct formatting for our chosen brief. As I have chosen to write a horror movie script this means that I need to convert it into a movie script. Follow this link for the original extract and this one for the converted version, or see below for screenshots of each.

Angle of article The angle of article is the way that a media product is written, the language it uses and the way it makes the reader feel. Angle of article usually applies to a non-fiction piece with the usual suspects being newspapers, TV broadcasts and documentaries. The way that a writer addresses the story will effect the way that the reader/viewer feels about the story as well as their viewpoint on the story. Most news stories will include the same facts, but the language used - or interviews with certain people- will change the way that a person feels about the story. An example of when the same story is written with more than one angle by different news channels is the Kaufman family rescue - see below for more. Example: Kaufman family rescue Script 1 - ABC 10 News ( Link to the video ) This angle uses more emotive language to make the viewer more likely to feel sympathetic towards the family. They use interviews with professionals to present the tri...

 How do fiction and non-fiction scripts differ in the pre-production stage? Fiction and non-fiction scripts will have a wide range of factors that will need to be taken into consideration before they start being produced. These factors won't just differ based on if the the product is fiction or non-fiction but will also be widely different depending on the type of media that is being made. As you can see from the examples on the left, Fiction scripts will include film,TV, video game and radio scripts from a range of genres including superhero, action, crime, thriller and soap opera.  These will generally be written with a clear idea of what will happen during the story of the product (with whole seasons for TV shows such as Doom Patrol being written to follow on from previous episodes and contribute towards a larger narrative). The exception to this will be for TV shows such as soaps which will have larger recurring plots and due to not being split into seasons will ...

An analysis of 4 scripts The following is an analysis of 4 different scripts, one each from a video game, TV show, Radio Drama and Film. Video Game Script This is a script for a video game (due to them being difficult to find I'm not sure what game this extract is from). This script is very different from other kinds of script due to the player having choices that will change the way that characters act and having lines that will only be heard when a player reaches a certain location or goes to a specific place in a certain location. We can see at the top of the page to the left that there is a selection of dialogue for "Bleu" while "Lily" explores. This is dialogue that would be played while a player is exploring a certain location, to help the player to connect more with the character saying the lines. The section at the bottom of the page to the left is a script as we would expect to see it. This is because it will be for a pre-rendered cu...