SCRIPTWRITING IN THE CLASSROOM
©2006 Frank Baker, Media Educator
Note: typical film scripts contain more than just dialogue. Have your students notice all other terms and directions embedded in these types of scripts, often called screenplays.
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Download these pages from the screenplay for this scene from the film |
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Download page 1 from the book, Because of Winn-Dixie – have your students create the opening scene (Opal inherits a dog) using the blank storyboard |
Recommended Resources:
- Language of Film-Scriptwriting (Recommended readings; resources; lesson plans; texts, videos)
- Film/Scriptwriting periodicals
- The Language of Film: Screenwriting Teachers Resource Guide (YMI, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences)
- Writing Screenplays (UK)
- Scripting Screenplays: An Idea for Integrating Writing, Reading, Thinking, and Media Literacy. English Journal, v84 n2 p86-91 Feb 1995
- Screenplay Format (Wikipedia)
- Tickets, please: plug in the DVD player—watching movies in class can improve kids’ reading and writing skills in some surprising ways
- Internet Script Database
- Scriptologist
- Film Script Terminology
- Drew’s Script-o-Rama
- How Screenplays are constructed (UK resource)
- How to format a screenplay (Scriptologist)
- How to write a screenplay (The Visual Writer)
- Scriptwriting/New Scripts (BFI)
- Screenwriting Glossary
- Teacher’s Guide to Making Student Movies (Scholastic)
- Writing for Moving Images (BBC)
