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Skin: Learning Resource by Film Education

Creating a Shooting Script – The Brereton Store

By now you should be familiar with the way a script is typed out on the page and the kinds of things it highlights alongside the actual dialogue. 

The next activity involves your building on this knowledge, by working on a short scene.  You will have a set of tasks that the scene needs to perform and also a brief extract from Sandra Laing’s biography. 

In addition, you are also provided with some key film terms that you can use to suggest to the cameraman how he or she might film the scene. 

Finally, there is a section of emotion terms that you are free to use or add to, when offering actors ideas about how to play the lines. 

Armed with these ideas, your task is to write out a short scene using all the script layout conventions.  It describes an incident that actually features early on in the film – one that follows immediately on from Abraham visiting Sandra’s school and learning of the complaints that have been received from parents about her presence there.  He is clearly arriving back in a grim mood.

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