Metamorphosis

SCRIPT 1: NOTTING HILL

Press conference scene (Final scene)

1. Characters: Anna Scott as the movie star, William Thacker as the man falling in love with Anna, PR Chief Jeremy and the journalists

2. Voice over: 

and the part where William was searching for Anna, we can hear what the journalists were speaking, though we cannot see who are speaking

3. Camera movement:

4. Transition:  Put at the beginning of each new scene 

5. Place and Time:  Put at the beginning of each new scene

SCRIPT 2: FORREST GUMP

Forrest Gump rescuses Bubba in a fight in Vietnam

1. Characters:

Forrest Gump and other American soldier such as Bubba, Tex and Lieutenant Dan

2. Voice over:

3. Camera Movement: 

Is not mentioned in this script

4 + 5. Transition: Place and Time: Put at the beginning of each new scene

What are the differences between scripts before production and scripts which are ready for production?

Before production:

_ Manuscript: a script before it has been published

_Sample script: show case the writing skills of the author to attract the attention of a producer

_ Treatment, a 25 to 30 page description of the story, its mood, and characters. This usually has little dialogue and stage direction, but often contains drawings that help visualize key points.

_A spec script (speculative screenplay) is a screenplay for a movie that is shopped or sold on the open market, as opposed to one commissioned by a studio orproduction company. A speculative screenplay is a script written with no upfront payment, or a promise of payment. The content is usually invented solely by the screenwriter, though spec screenplays can also be based on established works, or real people and events.

Spec scripts are distinct from shooting scripts, and are written for various reasons:

▪ for easier reading, often avoiding camera angles, editing directions, and technical intrusions

▪ by writers who hope to have a script optioned and eventually purchased by producers or studios;

▪ by writer/directors who want to direct a film themselves;

▪ by amateur writers hoping to convince a literary agent to represent them or a producer to hire them.

Production script:

_No more major changes or rewrites is anticipated to occur, used day by day for filming on a movie set

_A shooting script is not the version of a screenplay but is instead used during the production of a motion picture. Shooting scripts are distinct from spec scripts in that they make use of scene numbers (along with certain other formatting conventions described below), and they follow a well defined set of procedures specifying how script revisions should be implemented and circulated.