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Preface ............................................................................
iii
Introduction
.......................................................................................vii
Lesson 1:
Get Your Act Together 
..................................................1
Lesson 2:
What a Character!
...................................................... 15
Lesson 3:
Scene by Scene
...........................................................25
Lesson 4:
Storyboards
.................................................................35
Lesson 5:
Let’s Start Talking: Dialogue I
.................................... 47
Lesson 6:
Where the Action Is: Getting Your Story Moving
.....59
Lesson 7:
Set Design and Story
..................................................69
Lesson 8:
Talk Is NOT Cheap: Dialogue II
.................................. 81
Lesson 9:
The Buzz: Coming Soon to a Theater Near You
.......91
Lesson 10:
Premiere Night
...........................................................103
Glossary
.....................................................................................
111
Appendix:
National Standards in English Language Arts
........113
Table of Contents
Screenwriting for Short Video
 
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Facilitator’s Guide vii
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video can collect “millions of hits” or connect with your social network on
YouTube, Photobucket, Flickr 
or 
Vimeo
, it’s got to be conceived, written
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screenwriting!Welcome to
Screenwriting for Short Video: An Introduction for Teens
,a 10-lesson introduction to writing the script for your own video. In thiscourse, you’ll learn all the fundamentals of screenwriting, from coming upwith a story idea, to developing your characters, working on dialogue, andexploring the basics of set design, action, and even publicity!Each lesson is focused on a singular goal: providing you with the tools
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By studying each lesson, playing games and participating in exercises withyour friends, you’ll have the opportunity in every lesson to sharpen a newdimension of your screenwriting talent. You’ll also be given time to write,
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commercials. Exercises like “conversational pairs” provide plenty of comicrelief—screenwriting is fun!In the end, you’ll be charmed with all you know and strut your own stuff during “Premiere Night” –when your classmates act out your screenplay
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awarded.Screenwriters are Hollywood’s unsung heroes. And they are Hollywood’sbest storytellers. Behind the dizzying rip of Jack Black’s guitar riffs in
TheSchool of Rock 
,
Juno’s
goofy infatuation, and Jon Heder’s awkward dancein
Napoleon Dynamite
, a screenwriter crafted the dialogue, helped pitch
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should behave and move.Everyone knows that JK Rowling wrote the Harry Potter series. But a
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translating Rowling’s hefty cast of characters and intricate plotting into oneof the world’s most-loved story sensations.What kind of sensation are you going to create?
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