Filmmaking Basics/Formatting the Script/Conclusion

This school is: Wikiversity Film School - Narrative film production This course is: The basics of narrative filmmaking This lesson is: Formatting the script Pages of this lesson: Page 1 - Lesson summary & the story Page 2 - Analyze the story Page 3 - Learn Final Draft Page 4 - Type the script The completed assignments (Scripts formatted by students) Conclusion - Is it perfect?

Look at real scripts Good news and bad news Some people were very creative. But most people did not master formatting perfectly. ==Creative scripts is good news Some of the scripts were very creative. But it is hard to be creative and still keep to the original story. Here is the best example from Rick van Veldhuizen (Rick14) who is from the Netherlands. You can download his script at Media:Rick14 Screenplay SBTDS.pdf. The bad news With few exceptions, no one did this assignment successfully. Your formatting was not perfect. Every one of you would have been fired if you did this in Hollywood. Just too many mistakes. Therefore, you must look at real motion picture scripts and see what you are doing wrong. Most film schools have libraries of motion picture scripts. Take a look.

Go to the next lesson Next, you need to learn about storyboarding, starting with creating thumbnail storyboards. Your first step is to take the Pop Quiz and then go to the lesson on thumbnail storyboarding . Please take this Pop Quiz! Contact your instructor Your instructor for this filmmaking class is Robert Elliott. You can email me by clicking here.

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