1.2 Scriptwriting.
Task 1:
Jakub was in singapore airport waiting for his flight back to England, when he was approached by a group of armed security guards. They started questioning Jakub about the fact he has spent more than three days at the airport which is considered illegal and is a punishable offence. What they didn't know is that Jakub missed his flight due to being stopped by guards earlier on, meaning he had to spend an extra two days to wait for his next flight to England. When the guards asked Jakub what caused him to miss his flight he replied in anger, "This is the second time you guys are stopping me, you are making me spend thousands just because you feel like doing random checks on people, last time I was stopped for forgetting to flush the toilet which apparently is illegal in your country."One of the guards replied calmly with "We do apologise but yes that is illegal in our country and you can be fined a lot for it, we understand that you missed your flight but you cannot be at the airport more than 48 hours before your flight.".
After being taken out of the airport Jakub decided to find the closest hotel and spend the night there and in the morning book his flight back to England. In the morning, Jakub booked the first flight to England which was in just over 24 hours meaning that he could return to the airport and spend the rest of his time there.Approaching the security gate Jakub gets spotted by the same body guards that stopped him earlier, they asked me "why are you back already? You cannot be earlier than 48 hours"
Jakub responded with " I know that's why I'm here.. my flight is tomorrow morning to I'm not breaking any rules. Now let me get on with my journey as you ruined it enough." Jakub walked passed the security ignoring anything they said to him and waited at the gate for his flight in the morning. Luckily for Jakub there was no more issues and the next day he was on the plane back to England after so many complications.
Task 2:
What perspective is the script written in?
The script is written in 3rd person perspective
-Is a script written in past, present or future tense?
The script is written present tense.
-On average, how much of the script is spent on action & slugline (description)? Answer as a percentage
The amount of script spent on action & slugline is between 60-70%
-List different things that were described or could be described in the "action" part of the script
Everything.
Task 3:
Header ( Slug line)- Lines top! Always cap. First part tells you if its interior or exterior important for when you shooting, followed by location followed by a dash then by time of day.
Need a new slug line every time a location changes of time of day changes
INT/ EXT any time it changes without cutting.
Action LIne- Line description under the header that describes in more detail what happens in the scene. Only visual information, only things you can see on the screen. First time we see character their name should be in CAPS
Character ID- Below an action line. Let's you know who's talking
(Character Parenthetical) - brackets next to character's name that tell the reader if the character talking is doing something else than the standard talking than talking to the character. E.G talking over the phone (Into Phone) Voice Over (V.O) . You can also control how people say the actual dialogue.
(Dialogue Parenthetical) - Placed right below character's name and above the dialogue. Purpose is to illustrate how the person is talking or what is their tone or their motion. It can also indicate when another language is being used.
Dialogue - Character's words are put below the character's name.
Transition - Explains the transitions over the scenes.
Over Black When the screen is black and there is a title card or audio playing over the black screen.
Task 4:
Task 5:
First draft:
Task 6:
After watching the video I realised you could be more straight forward and that gives a better effect than giving a load of information. Giving too much information could get boring at some point, but not giving enough could make the actors confused on what they do. I tried adding all the points that was asked for, the only one I missed was the metaphor but managed to get all the other ones in.
Simile:
Task 9:
The script is written in 3rd person perspective
-Is a script written in past, present or future tense?
The script is written present tense.
-On average, how much of the script is spent on action & slugline (description)? Answer as a percentage
The amount of script spent on action & slugline is between 60-70%
-List different things that were described or could be described in the "action" part of the script
Everything.
Task 3:
Header ( Slug line)- Lines top! Always cap. First part tells you if its interior or exterior important for when you shooting, followed by location followed by a dash then by time of day.
Need a new slug line every time a location changes of time of day changes
INT/ EXT any time it changes without cutting.
Action LIne- Line description under the header that describes in more detail what happens in the scene. Only visual information, only things you can see on the screen. First time we see character their name should be in CAPS
Character ID- Below an action line. Let's you know who's talking
(Character Parenthetical) - brackets next to character's name that tell the reader if the character talking is doing something else than the standard talking than talking to the character. E.G talking over the phone (Into Phone) Voice Over (V.O) . You can also control how people say the actual dialogue.
(Dialogue Parenthetical) - Placed right below character's name and above the dialogue. Purpose is to illustrate how the person is talking or what is their tone or their motion. It can also indicate when another language is being used.
Dialogue - Character's words are put below the character's name.
Transition - Explains the transitions over the scenes.
Over Black When the screen is black and there is a title card or audio playing over the black screen.
Task 4:
Task 5:
First draft:
Task 6:
After watching the video I realised you could be more straight forward and that gives a better effect than giving a load of information. Giving too much information could get boring at some point, but not giving enough could make the actors confused on what they do. I tried adding all the points that was asked for, the only one I missed was the metaphor but managed to get all the other ones in.
Simile:
Adjective:
Adverb:
Short line of action:
Draft 2/ Final piece:
Task 7:
After watching the video I decided that I won't be making any changes to my dialogue as it's already unique and each character speaks in a different and unique way, none of them speak the same.Only the guards speak similar but that is part of the job where they have to be monotone and can't be aggressive or kind. In my dialogue I already have at least two characters that are a different age and different status, I have the guards which are a higher status and then I have myself which is a middle class. I also have the conflict part in my dialogue as that is the whole part of my script, it is about a conflict and an issue at an airport. So for that reason I did not change anything in my dialogue as I have everything that was required already. Of course I tried finding a way of changing it around but I think the way it is now is the best I could do it.
Task 8:
I decided to do a scene out of baby driver where they just did the first heist and are getting paid. When I found the script online I was confused because the layout was completely different, in moments where the characters say something that part is like 10 lines down. Other than that the script was fine. The things I included that the script doesn't is some of the dialogue as during acting the actors will improvise and add a bit of their own so that's the difference. The things that I left out would be a lot of action, I now see that you have to describe everything in the scene completely and not only the major things, even the small details. Other than the action I didn't miss out any dialogue or anything else. I think my script has the same tone/atmosphere as the actual one and that is for one reason, because it's mainly dialogue and not a lot of action. I think if there was a lot more action the tone/atmosphere would of been different. Length wise it's hard to say if mine was the same or not just because of how the real one was laid out. I think the length was pretty close but the actual one was probably longer just because it had more action in it than mine did.
Link to actual script: https://www.scriptslug.com/assets/uploads/scripts/baby-driver-2017.pdf pages 8-12
Task 9:
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