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First Impressions - Chart I

The Fact Behind the Lines

Mysterious

Lines or Events

Three Possible

Meanings

Paraphrase

Evidence for

Your Ideas

Ideas/First

Impressions

  • Take into account the reality of the line being said
  • Who says it and in what context?
  • The first read through of a script (skim)
  • Seeing that the script has possibilities
  • Figure out what, for you, the movie is about?
  • Reading the script out loud
  • Reading confusing lines over and over again
  • Adding different emphasis on lines to change them
  • Open mind to how the line should read
  • Creating three different possible reasons for what is happening
  • Used on an individual line or a group of lines
  • Creates choices
  • Characters Inner life
  • Blocking or business without plot consequences
  • Characters personal objects
  • Backstory facts
  • Images
  • Emotional events
  • Start to put lines into your own words
  • Purpose is to own the character
  • Not trying to rewrite the script, only getting a good idea of who the characters are

The Immutable: Facts and Images - Chart 2

Research

A.Reread Script

B. External

C. Internal

Associations

A. From story

B. External

C.Personal/Internal

Images

Evidence

Facts

Questions

Contradictions

Issues

  • Can be sarcastic or misunderstood lines in the script
  • Can be hidden objectives and goals of the characters
  • Any rapid behavior change in the characters
  • Things that can be deduced from the script
  • Lines and direction from the script must support it
  • Evidence can become facts if proven later in the script
  • Associations come from your own personal memories and experience
  • Can be influenced by observation of the script, your own imagination or even from your research
  • The characters situation
  • Events that happened before the scene stars
  • Sometimes clear sometimes not
  • Cannot be choices
  • A) Rereading can help by answering questions or even creating new ones
  • B) Helps to research words you don't know or slang from that time or genre
  • C) Your own personal experiences, understandings and observations. Connect what you know about life to the script
  • Used to push any evidence into a fact
  • Ask what, where, why, or who about the character
  • Used to create new ideas and character development
  • Two kinds of images: writers thematic images and character's personal images
  • Images can be used to give stronger power towards emotions of the character
  • Images are all in the word choice of the writer and the context in which the actor says the line

Imaginative Choices - Chart 3

What Just

Happened

History

(Backstory)

Subtext

Action Verbs

Physical Life

Objective

Adjustments

A. "As if"

B. "What if"

C. "It's like when"

The Problem

/ Obstacle

  • What stands in the way of the character achieveing his objective
  • Is it a external or internal problem
  • Compared to the strength of the desire how powerful is the obstacle
  • The underlineing tone or way a line is said
  • Can be used to turn good news into bad news and vice verses
  • Relies on the character to be subtle to make sure the other character don't have to react to the subtext
  • Facts that are not mentioned in the script
  • Questions can be used to create a possible backstory by the director
  • Possible backstory has to match up with the facts of the script
  • What are the physical attributes of the characters
  • How old are they, what experiences have they been through
  • What are they wearing and why?
  • Facts should contribute to these choices
  • What does the character need
  • What does he want by the end of the scene
  • Take into account all the events and facts of the scene
  • How strong is the characters desire
  • "off camera beat"
  • What has happened to the characters in the scene just before
  • Questions how the character are reacting to the coming events of the scene
  • What the character does to overcome the obstacle
  • How strong the action must be is related to the strength of desire and how powerful the obstacle is
  • How do the other characters in the scene react to the actions being used
  • Adjustments are changes in the choices to give the characters a new direction for the scene
  • Adjustments can be as simple as the "what if" change
  • Adjustments can also be a change in authority, age, how they take news, or even the overal relationship of the characters

Events - Chart 4

Subject

Beat

Scene Event

What Happens

Transitions

and

Connections

Who Brings

It Up

  • Name of the character who brings up the subject
  • What is the overall point of the scene
  • Why does this scene take place
  • How relevant is it to the plot
  • Little sections of a scene
  • Beats change every time a subject changes
  • Major beats: Beginning, middle, and end
  • Minor beats are based on the subjects of each scene
  • Subjects are the point of each beat
  • Can be emotional reaction
  • Can be physical reactions
  • Figure out how the beats relate to each other
  • small events or issues
  • Can lead to ideas about the scene
  • Exactly what happens
  • How do the characters react
  • How does the scene move forward
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