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SCRIPT WRITING FOR ANIMATION
This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of developing and writing scripts for film and television. It emphasizes proper script formats, theme, story, plot, dialogue, characters, and the process of developing and writing a script. The assignments will include the writing of scenes, a treatment and a half-hour script, with special emphasis on the steps leading toward creating a final screenplay.
Course Outcomes (COs):
Course | Learning Outcomes (at course level)
| Learning and teaching strategies | Assessment Strategies | |
Paper Code | Paper Title | |||
BMA 311 | Script Writing for Animation (Theory)
| Students will be able to: CO59. Develop their ideas into stories. CO60. Use act of structure in the script narration. CO61. Illustrate a script for an animation short & feature length film. CO62. Learn and develop an aesthetic sense about script articulation, screenplay and Planning of the whole story.
| Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Discussion, reading assignments, Group activities, Teaching using advanced video tools, Film screening.
Learning activities for the students: Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks.
| Assessment Strategies Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects |
Developing Idea/ Concept - Story - Basic Elements Of A Story, Types Of Stories – Sources Of Story Line – Adaption. Differences in Story Structure.
Basic Structure of A Story – Old and Modern Structures – Concept of Acts –Theme – Subplots – Tone. Genre - Writing for Different Types and Groups of Audience.
Animation Script – Script Writing Format-location, action, dialogue. Shot – Scene – Sequence.Animation Script vs. Live Action Movie Script, Screenplay Format – Elements of Screenplay Format.
Screen Writing -Anatomy of a Script, Script Elements and Scene Heading, Action, Characters.Dialogue - Transition - Shots - Page Breaking, Finer Points.
Basic Overview: How to write A Premise, How to write Funny Stuff, Feature, Internet & Sample Scripts. Writing a Television Animation Script.
1. Christy Marx, « Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games », Focal Press (1 September 2005).
2. Jean Ann Wright, « Animation Writing and Development: From Script Development to Pitch (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation) », Focal Press (17 February 2005).
3. Jeffrey Scott, « How to Write for Animation », Overlook Hardcover; 1 Edition (10 June 2002).
- Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, « The Illusion of Life », Disney Publications.
- Karen Sullivan, Kate Alexander, AubryMintz and Ellen Besen, « Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories », Focal Press; 2 edition (12 April 2013).
