Draft 4 of the Fiction Script (Full Rewrite of 3rd Draft) + Other Items
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Note: To receive credit on this assignment, it must be the fourth full draft of your script. It cannot be a repeat draft. It should address all professor’s comments from the third (and earlier) drafts.
In order to count as the Revision Project, the script must be the fourth draft. This means that students will revise their fiction project so that the script, logline and treatment all make for a more effective narrative and presentation. In these revisions, students will be sure to work in all comments and suggestions received by the professor during the workshop and grading processes.
The Revision Package should include revised versions of all of the following:
- Screenplay (properly formatted, with title page, 7-10 pages in length)
- Title (clever and pithy and obviously connected to the story)
- Logline (that describes the script by identifying the essential elements of protagonist, protagonist want, antagonist, conflict, action protagonist takes to try to over antagonistic forces, setting)
- Synopsis
- Treatment
These drafts should be the cleanest — meaning they should be free of typos, misspellings, poor sentence construction, incomplete sentences, wrong capitalizations, missing capitalizations. They should be pristine and error free. And that’s just scratching the surface.
They should show that the student writer has come a long way from week one when students were not as familiar with concepts like protagonist, three acts, structure, character want, antagonist, conflict as they are (or should be) today.
The revised script should include:
- the clear desire or want of the protagonist in each and every scene
- clear action the protagonist takes to get the thing s/he wants
- minimal dialog — only dialog that is necessary and it is at times necessary but it should NOT be used in the place of visual information that should be stronger and more prevalent throughout the screenplay
- the difficulty the protagonist encounters going after what she or he wants
- clear but short and concise descriptions of the location where each scene takes place
- visual items and clues that help propel the story — meaning, make use of the visual world that should be telling your story
- the conflict should increase over time — ideally, there should be a point in the script where it looks like the protagonist might not make it out alive. In scripts where things do go south for the protagonist, the opposite needs to occur. If the protagonist is a “bad guy,” who ends up failing to get what she or he wants, then there should be a scene toward the end where it looks like s/he will get it only to have that goal ultimately snatched away at the last possible second
- include major story beats — the big “buts,” turns, twists, reversals, surprises — those aha! or whoa moments that make stories really come to life
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