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You have your film treatment, you've written character profiles, you have your plotline, now to put your master plan together and create your script!

Use script blanks and

 

 

BAKER VIDEO PRODUCTION
writer production date
Scene # Int/Ext, Day, Night Visual Audio

Begin your scene numbers with scene 101. The hundreth place number goes up one anytime there is a new scene. A new scene happens whenever the time or place of the story changes.

Add 10 to your next scene number. Leaving space between your scene numbers allows your to add shots later and not have to renumber the whole script.

 

101

 

inside or outside, day or night?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

int day

Generally, write here what the audience sees.

In the first shot of a scene, state where we are, who is there, and when is this in the script. Also include any information that is important to understanding the scene which is not obvious, like, (this character is a ghost)

what kind of shot

  • ws (wide shot)
  • ms (medium shot)
  • cu (close up)
  • ews(extreme wide shot)
  • ecu(extreme close up)
  • pov (point of view of one of the characters) subjective camera
  • ovs (over the shoulder)
  • zoom in
  • zoom out
  • dolly in
  • dolly out

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ws Billys bedroom, morning, Billy is sleeping

 

What does the audience hear?

Dialogue should be shown by the character's name in capital letters, then exactly what is said. Any directions as to how something should be said should be put in brackets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MOM

Billy? (frightenedly)

SDFX

thunder
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120  

 

 

 

  
130      
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201 int day    
210  

 

 

 

  

FORMS

script blanks

storyboards

call sheets

continuity forms

shot list forms

prop list form

 

Scripts are read from left to right starting with the scene number. Lined up with each scene number, one reads across and finds that the shot is inside (int) or outside (ext) happening in the day or night. Then what we see in the shot under Visual and what we here in the shot under Audio.
  Storyboard Templates to begin writing your script
 

 

BAKER VIDEO PRODUCTIONS Storyboards

PRODUCTION:____________________________________ DIRECTOR:______________________________________

Date:_____________________

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
scene__________________________________________ scene__________________________________________

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
scene__________________________________________ scene__________________________________________

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Begin your script with help from your crew
  • Everyone, copy and save this link to your webfolio
    • be sure to make it a web page file (.htm or .html extension)
    • open this new page in Dreamweaver
      • rename the page after your crew's film treatment
    • make a link from your index.html page to this new page
    • save and put all changes
    • test your new link online
  • With your crew
    • have the writer of the film treatment tell his/her story
      • while the story is being told, ask the teller:
        • where did the story begin?
        • who was there?
        • what was going on?
        • how does the audience know these things?
    • have another crew member load the script-blank page in Dreamweaver
      • type in the place of the first scene # (start with scene #101)
      • type in whether it was inside (int) or outside (ext) day or night
      • type under visual - what does the audience see - wide shot/medium shot/close-up of the place where the first scene took place
    • all other crew members should have a storyboard sheet and a pencil/pen
      • number the first panel scene 101
      • draw what the camera would show the audience in the first shot
        • each panel represents what the camera would show the audience at the beginning of the shot
   
   
 

Every Take/Shot has a Beginning a Middle and an End
  Screen Direction - everything happens with in and around the frame.

Terms for Video and Audio Production
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_direction

camera right

camera left

house right

house left

upstage

downstage

exit right

exit left

off camera

screen vector

pan right

pan left

tilt up

tilt down

truck right

truck left

zoom in

zoom out

cut

action

moving on

back to one

take

shot

scene

location scout

pre light

 
  http://www.tpub.com/content/photography/14209/css/14209_341.htm
  http://www.videomaker.com/article/7400/
  http://www.videomaker.com/article/12986/
  http://masteringvideography.com/2007/01/28/08-screen-direction/
   
 

Matching Action

Use the action at the end of the proceeding shot to begin the action of the present shot
  Shoot entrances and Exits
  Directors, Wait a beat after the reading of the slate before calling 'Action' and wait after the action to call, "Cut!"
  Camera Operators, wait a beat after 'Cut' before shutting off the camera