Script Writing for Animation

Paper Code:

25BMA311

Credits:

Periods/week:

Max. Marks:

100.00

Objective:

Objectives: This course will enable the students to:

1. Learn fundamentals of developing and writing scripts for film and television.

2. Emphasizes proper script formats, theme, story, plot, dialogue, characters, and the process of developing and writing a script.

3. Write the scenes, a treatment and a half-hour script, with special emphasis on the steps leading toward creating a final screenplay.

Course Outcomes:

Course

Learning outcome

(at course level)

Learning and teaching

strategies

Assessment

Strategies

Course

Code

Course

title

25BMA

311

Script Writing for

Animation

(Practical)

The students will:

CO91. Exemplify, compare and correlate movie scripts,

screenplays and Planning of the whole story.

CO92. Correlate and compare traditional and modern script writing tools and techniques.

CO93. Adapt the act of Structure, journey of hero and elements of the script.

CO94. Role-play effective screenplays using script formats.

CO95. Write, blog, compose a script for animated short & feature length films.

CO96. Contribute effectively in course- specific interaction

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussions, reading assignments, Group activities, Teaching using advanced audio and video aids, Film screenings, Film Appreciation.

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning

assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks.

Assessment

Strategies

Class tests, Semester end

examinations, Quizzes,

Solving problems in tutorials,

Assignments, Presentations,

Individual and group projects

9.00

Unit I:

Developing Idea/ Concept - Story - Basic Elements Of A Story, Types Of Stories – Sources Of Story Line – Adaption. Differences in Story Structure.

9.00

Unit II:

Basic Structure of A Story – Old and Modern Structures – Concept of Acts –Theme – Subplots – Tone. Genre - Writing for Different Types and Groups of Audiences.

9.00

Unit III:

Animation Script – Script Writing Format-location, action, dialogue. Shot – Scene – Sequence. Animation Script vs. Live Action Movie Script, Screenplay Format – Elements of Screenplay Format.

9.00

Unit IV:

Screen Writing -Anatomy of a Script, Script Elements and Scene Heading, Action, Characters. Dialogue Transition - Shots - Page Breaking, Finer Points.

9.00

Unit V:

Basic Overview: How to write A Premise, How to write Funny Stuff, Feature, Internet & Sample Scripts. Writing a Television Animation Script.

ESSENTIAL READINGS:

SUGGESTED TEXT BOOKS:

1. Christy Marx, « Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games », Focal Press, 2005.

2. Jean Ann Wright, « Animation Writing and Development: From Script Development to Pitch (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation) », Focal Press, 2005.

3. Jeffrey Scott, « How to Write for Animation », Overlook Hardcover; 1 Edition, 2002.

REFERENCES:

SUGGESTED REFERENCE BOOKS:

1. Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, « The Illusion of Life », Disney Publications.

2. Karen Sullivan, Kate Alexander, Aubry Mintz and Ellen Besen, « Ideas for the Animated

Short: Finding and Building Stories », Focal Press; 2 edition, 2013.

E-RESOURCES:

1. https://www.bloopanimation.com/writing-a-script/

2. https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-a-tv-script-a-guide-to-starting-your- career-in-television-writing

3. https://www.wideopenspace.co.uk/animation-tutorial/s2-script-writing.html

REFERENCE JOURNALS:

1. https://www.journals.elsevier.com/graphics-and-visual-computing