SCRP 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Plutonium
6 Feb 2019
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Assignments iii: read one screenplay, opening sequence of three to five pages - two characters meeting after a minor car accident, optional rewrite (first two pages of original opening sequence) Don"t mindread your characters -- only what we perceive -- don"t tell us stuff we can"t see. Character"s name is only capitalized first time we hear them. Parentheticals are needed only to explain a line reading that wouldn"t make sense without it. Make a small detail in act 1 pay off in act 3. Think of characters in terms of genre. Interesting: often through dissonance - inside of character doesn"t totally match outside (brilliant surgeon, heroin addict, memorable, make the character pop , playable. What they do has to make sense from their pov. He"s got a two-day beard and a three-day hangover . She"s the plutonium they use to make sex bombs . Grooming i. ii. iii. iv: mood/demeanor, first impressions.
