Script Writing for Beginners

Presently, I am working with two classes at Portstewart Primary School, scripting ideas for a film festival they will be presenting in June this year. There are seven groups of 5 children creating films for the festival. Not all of the films will be animated but some will have aspects of animation involved.

I was asked to join the teachers because of my experience with making films with children and to help solve the problem of some of the scripts leaning toward the fantastic and the unfathomable.

In preparation for our first meeting, I created a beginners template for film production and script writing that I thought would help refresh and introduce some of the basic film making methods I use in practice.

What follows, are Power Point images from the introduction.
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Script Example: From Boots To Books









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