Treatments Due; Turning Your Treatment into a Film Script; Rebel Without a Cause: Day 2

Lab: (Until 8:00)

• Please turn in your homework regarding "HUAC" & "The Emergence of Television." See the previous post for details.
• Complete your treatments and print these out before 8:00 this morning. Turn in your treatment for participation/writing credit.

If you finish your treatment before 8:00, please begin to shape your treatment into a film script. See the handouts on script format and the tutorial videos (if you have not already watched them or need more assistance with the format for a screenplay):

Script Format

• Screenplay formatting
• Script Format video (part one)
• Script Format video (part two)
• How to Format a Movie Script
• Writers: Story Telling Tips

A treatment helps describe the action and plot of a film. Filmmakers use this to help define scenes. To do this easily, break your film script into the various scenes you indicated in your treatment. Add dialogue and further description as necessary.

Script Project: 
You should write a script that is at least 5-10 pages in length. It can be longer. This page requirement is per writer. If you are working with a partner, then both of you should write at least 5-10 pages of the film script (so your screenplay will run somewhere between 10-20 or more pages).

I suggest sharing your treatment (after you break it up into scenes) with your partner and working AT THE SAME TIME. For example, one partner can be working on the odd scenes and your partner can be working AT THE SAME TIME on the even scenes. The idea is that you both contribute writing to the script project.

• Next to the tagline or slugline, please put your initials in parenthesis to mark who is responsible for which scene. 
• If you are working alone, you do not have to do this step.

Classroom: We will view the second and last half of the film Rebel Without a Cause.

HOMEWORK: Work on your script. This draft will be due Friday, May 26. Also, just a reminder that our senior coffeehouse will be next Tuesday at 7:00 in the Ensemble Theater.