Breaking a script # 3


After last weeks class i drew a  line on my left hand side of my book and i wrote next to it scene action  and on the right hand side i drew a line wrote next to it  unit action , but i really didn't  know what to write in them. i kew that i have to write the scene in the first one, easy , but what about the second one how do i know the units exactly ?

This week's lesson made so much sense, because of the exercise we did in class,  of corse practise makes everything easier.

So every time we have a psychological change we have a beat , and sometimes the scene action and the unit action can be the same.

i always thought , i cant wait until we start learning on set , how we deal with actors, hods etc… until last week when i saw how important to break down a script , where you see the  full objectives of the actor
: super,overall, scene and unit , you break down the scene action and unit action .

the way you break it is important , cs  it is the way you see it , which is the way you are going to deliver it to actors  , ACTORS CAN'T ACT AN ESSAY! i think it is pinned in my head now from the amount of times that our lecturer said it ,use active verbs and not passive.
but really think about it , how would an actor act conflicted, sad or annoyed?



That's all for this week ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Au revoir

                     Breaking down a script 2 

Before i start i just want to say that i hate to say or to talk about exactly what happened in class , cs then i just feel like a robot! to say what film we watched and what sentences exactly we said!! then im a robot!! or a parrot.

Anyways in any screenplay there is a lot of scenes and in every scene there is actions(scene actions) . and in every scene there is units(beats)  that they have their own actions(unit actions).

.what is a beat?

A beat is an emotional or psychological action of a character in a scene, so every time we have an emotional change we have a beat .

.why do we break each scene by scene?

each scene have a beginning, a middle and an end,and we do break it one by one  to have a better understanding of the the whole story,characters,and actions so we can  deliver it better to the audience.

.why should we know the beats, beat by beat?

so we can tell the story efficiently by knowing the characters well enough ;and what they are doing in this unit of this scene.

                                                           Link of this week

As usual after doing my researches for this week i discovered that there is something called a beat sheet  that we should use, where we should state the locations, characters, conflicts,and twists of this story in this sheet ,to know more about it visit the link below:

                                         

                                      http://www.craftyscreenwriting.com/excerpts/TV03.html

I hope it all made sense to you, cs that's all for this week,,,,,,,,,,,,,Au revoir

                                                          
                                          Breaking a script


So what does breaking a script means?
who does break it?
what does it involve?


Well to start with, the director is the one who breaks the script and to do that, the first thing he has to do, is to read it over and over again until he knows it by heart(well not that much!) but until he gets a clear vision of it and start playing it in his head.then he'd think on how he's intending to tell the story;  once he establishes that ,he can move on to the theme, moral premise,  characters, main actions(what event grabs the audience)and the consequences of this actions and results, tension in the story(what drives the story into what happens next), locations, if the story make sense or not. and once that is done , then we can move on to the scene breakdown(which im not sure if it is still his job or not sooo im gona stop here).


                                                           Video of this week



I've done a lot of research this week to see which video is the best about script breakdown to upload it for u guys  and omg!! 1- there is a LOT to learn about a script breakdown and 2- there is a lot of softwares that help us to do that!! and apparently Final Draft is a good one. so video of this week which is really helpful issssss :

                                 


And this is another video about a lecturer talking about script breakdown that looks like he's teaching science!!:

 i personally thought that script breakdown would start straight from the shot list ,but obviously i was wrong, i think we need to practice to get the hang of it.i cant wait until we start filming and by filming i mean all the pre-production work as well!!



Ah well that's aaaall for this week ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,au revoir.