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Yr 12 OCR Media Studies

Screenplay Drafting

Learning Objectives Objectives:: 1. To build the identity of your target audience using your audience research findings

Success Criteria Process (How) 1.

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Gather all of your questionnaires, focus group footage and interview notes together. Collate within a table or graph and put onto your blog. Interpret and analyse your findings to infer a profile of your target audience, specifically link to your table or graph and answer the questions on the PPT slide Referring to your audience research findings re-write your treatment and upload to your blog Implementing your treatment rewrite start to draft a screenplay following the format on the PPT slide.

Product (What) 1.

Aud Audienc ience e rese resear arch ch fin finding ings tab able le or graph of results

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Audience re research summary of findings

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Re-write opening sequence treatment

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Draft of screenplay

Starter: Homework Findings TASK: Gather the findings from your audience research. Each member of the group should have 10 completed questionnaires (online or on paper). Then, as a group produce a table or graph to display the findings for each question. Post your tables/graphs to each of your blogs.

Audience Research Summary TASK: Each write a summary blog post answering each of these questions: 1. What conclusions can you make about your findings? What do they tell you? 2. Who is your target audience? 3. How are you going to make your opening sequence appeal to your audience? 4. Is there anything else you need to know about your target audience?

Treatment Re-write TASK: As a group you must write up your final treatment and upload it to your blogs. You must include a clear outline of your opening sequence idea for the entire 2 minutes. Identify camera, mise-en-scene, sound and editing techniques that you intend to use. This will then be used to develop your screenplay and storyboard.

Draft Screenplay TASK: Start writing the screenplay for your 2 minute opening sequence, you must include: 1. Description of each character. 2. Description of the settings. 3. Dialogue between characters. 4. SFX and music you will use.

Use Courier font in size 12. Double space. BLOCK CAPITALS for

Format Example AARON What are you talking about?

characters’

names and settings.

GRADY (walks on with Jack) The American way. Pleasant dreams, Mr. Root. EXT. OKLAHOMA-TEXAS HIGHWAY MORNING Sunrise, this one all pink and gold.

The black Chrysler pulling the black trailer, rolling on Highway 33, passing the sign: Welcome to Texas! Aaron following in his orange and white rig, passing a gas station. INT. GAS STATION DAY A kid looking out the plate glass toward the highway. He's about 17, in a well-used station shirt. KID (running toward the bays) You see that? We gotta go!