Script Writing 4/12/14

Script Writing 04/12/14

Notes from discussion about the unit

New views is about young voices writing for 16-18 year olds

Ideas which could make a good story for a play would be about a person close to your heart, a journey about them through the play to give a more authentic feel. This way your writing will have something particular to you.

Should be a half an hour play

The plat needs to go on a journey and the main character needs to grow and learn throughout the play. Visually you need to think and image your scenes to be able to create it.

Look for oppositions in a character - so what a character wants, what they need and what is stoppping them to build a story.

We were given different pictures of faces and then had to make up a story and background to the face of the person on the pictures. Here are my character profiles for 2 pictures:

Image 1:

Gender: Male
Age: 56
Ethnicity: White
Name: Ralph
Where do they get money from?: Earns it from his job as a lawyer
Accommodation: House
Lack in life: A Personality
Need: Sleep
Secret: Is married to 2 women because he has 2 identities
Problem: Infertile
Memory: His brother was killed at war
Something they believe in: He believes men overpower women
Wish for: Love
Where are they in the picture?: Shocked looking at the woman he left

Image 2:

Gender: Female
Age: 45
Ethnicity: White
Name: Delilah
Where do they get money from?: Working in a post office
Accommodation: Small Annex
Lack in life: Food
Need: Money
Secret: The father of her children didn't die he left her
Problem: Depressed
Memory: Being happy with her husband, she wishes the husband will come back
Wish: Happiness
Where are they in the picture: Sitting on a stoop of a front door



The idea of this process was to be able to build a character profile quickly by imaginative decisions in the moment and by some simple questions of traits to come up with a character has been built with a small background story which can then build.