Script Analysis

 

Before starting the process of filming our opening we felt that analysing the 'Runaway Bride' script as it took part in the romance genre would be helpful when creating our own. It put to practise of the terminology that we had learnt in lesson which would help when constructing our script, meaning that we would put terminology in the correct place and it would make sense. By looking at 'Runaway Bride' it helped us also understand the conventions of a romance film and some of the elements that we could possibly reflect and put it into our own.

 

Terminology Action: Its also known as 'business' or 'description' and shows what we see on the screen in the most visual way possible
Scene headings: Tells the readers where the scene takes place, in other words, where are the actors standing? where is the character placed?
- INT. means "interior." EXT. means "exterior."
Character name: Indication to the actor to start their dialogue
Extension: Technical indication about the character's dialogue, placed to the right of the character's name
Dialogue: The characters speech which conveys information and moves the story forward, while at the same time helps us understand the characters
Dual-Dialogue: When two characters speak simultaneously and their dialogue is placed side by side on the the page
Parentheticals: Direction to the actor on how to read the dialogue
Transitions: Cut to/fade to/pan to/fade out/wipe to/dissolve to/pull back to reveal