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Screenplay Characterization Project

The document provides instructions for students to write the beginning of a screenplay focusing on characterization through details about the characters, their dialogue, outfits, ages, and backstories. Students are to consider the setting and why the characters are there. The screenplay should follow proper formatting guidelines and can be written with up to 3 other students. The assignment is to develop characterization skills and refine details about settings and characters. Students will turn in sections on the title/introduction, climax/turning point, and conclusion.

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Screenplay Characterization Project

The document provides instructions for students to write the beginning of a screenplay focusing on characterization through details about the characters, their dialogue, outfits, ages, and backstories. Students are to consider the setting and why the characters are there. The screenplay should follow proper formatting guidelines and can be written with up to 3 other students. The assignment is to develop characterization skills and refine details about settings and characters. Students will turn in sections on the title/introduction, climax/turning point, and conclusion.

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Name: ___________________

Your Real-Time Drama.

You will be writing your own partial screenplay. In the screenplay, I want you to
focus on characterization through detail and dialogue. Consider the character’s outfits,
what age they’ll be, what they sound like when they talk, and why they are the way they
are. Be original and unique. Make round characters, not flat characters.

Consider the setting, where are the characters and why are they there?

Mimic the actual form of a screenplay, using the guide below:


*Font: Courier, size 10. Center all voices. Use correct indentation (double tab for
dialogue, center speakers, right indent for cuts. Use INT. / EXT. and where the scene is.
Be sure to give details on context clues.

INSERT: A first edition copy of The Royal Tenenbaums.

On the dust jacket there is an illustration of a cream- colored note card that looks
like a wedding invitation. The title of the book is engraved on the card.

The next page says “Chapter One.”

NARRATOR (V.O.)
! ! Royal Tenenbaum bought the house on
! ! Archer Avenue in the winter of his thirty-fifth year.

CUT TO:

A five-story limestone townhouse. A forty-three-year-old man in a raincoat rings the


front doorbell. He is Royal.

NARRATOR (CONT’D)
! ! Over the next decade, he and his wife
! ! had three children and then they separated.

INT. DINING ROOM. DAY.

Royal sits at the head of a long table. He is surrounded by his children.

As most scripts are written in collaboration with other writers, you may work with up to 3
other people. YOU MAY NOT WORK WITH MORE THAN 3.

This is primarily an activity to develop your sense of character, and an attempt to refine
your sense of detail in setting and characterization.

Assignments: Due: Points:


Title Page and Introduction (2-3 pages) Friday, 1/7 10
Climax and Turning Point (3-5 pages total) Wednesday, 1/12 10
Conclusion, Final Project (5-7 pages total) Monday, 1/17 20

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