Screenplay Development - Advanced Digital Video Production PBL Project

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California Common Core State Standards - English Language Arts

RL.11-12.5 Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
RL.11-12.6 Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).
WHST.11-12.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.

Screenplay Development - Advanced Digital Video Production PBL Project

Students will develop and write a screenplay for a 4-5 minute short film using screenplay writing software. Resulting screenplays will be developed for production as small group projects. Students will use industry standard screenplay formatting using screenplay software. Note: This unit is not intended to be a "day-to-day" unit project. The project can take place over a course of weeks giving students days between each lesson to write and rewrite various drafts. Other production projects can take place throughout the unit. Approximately 4 weeks