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bid nad been Blown aay) Marte the music {OF 2 Shon Gn te been a musician and fim fon eres mode 4 the Star Wars trilogy. So when story jumped at the chance. The fim wa doing battle with polution-belehing inmy The opportunity arose through the singer Trepany, which included music fom focal Ee eftering ur services for the next Prose ¢ we sent off. They liked it, and offere we sant off They Joep great success, ark 8007 S02 1 qs one of these, butt wax Score for a short fim enliled ‘Windmills’. had no tomiss this opportunity so immediately 50 YS ‘The remit was broad — write what | thought quickly discarded ths in favour of something Spain’ | already had a Spanish-style chord progres trad found a use frit. jate. My fist idea was an upbeat 3 firs lm we finished, and | had only a vague idea of what ‘The first problem was that the film was not yet _ and | Pa ory asic with several diferert nara | decided the best way to tackle this problem was t Y peee ial ‘These parts would need to convey ‘which would allow me to place them in different scenes. wrote be lengthened or shortened and be able to fit together in any order. | took my. ides to te musicians | was working with, and over the next week, wrote a song with six distinct sections. Eventually, | received a rough cut of the film, and began to restructure the song to fit each scene Fortunately, the musical ideas fitted well, and | only had to lengthen and shorten the different cers t fitthe scenes. Now answer these questions in the spaces provided. 1 (a) What position did the television company first offer the writer's band? Ty ide ci b. ib (b) Why did the writer decide to create some ‘Spanish-style music for the ‘i? So bun tho om A etery obs Spanish story a 4 (©) How did the iii Target Sove the problem of not for a Predator Terminator and Rocky Rirecclare mostly scioti, heleala Mitte 4 esti ‘and then answer the questions 7 Read this extract trom a website about script-writna “3 ee omens eee Maybe it's a funny incident that happened you, Whatever tht wPrihe story you want Toe 90 like to make or a painting that has repjown a rel description innumerable sites cr "ty avah! up in the ‘comect way 0 do it, jot down 8 a vit ated | Once you've captured your idea on paper, help writers turn raw ideas into workable Scripts. you need to tun he description you have When you've got lots ot ideas trom these Stes. YOUNIS Ctage, get confusing, as ditrma aporcactes to cary devupment re referred tin cifferent ways SUC 2S OUI, Sona, and treatments). Dent get too hung up on which Way oor screenplay "a {sto develop the idea into a structured story that will wo! 1 ge tho lg aa gol gl the ya people working in film or television, but you can always USE Pee eset? Wrat S i" the idea and think about what makes it cinematic. Who are the chara ee the premise, the theme? When these components have come together in Your mind, i's time tg | Put your story down in script format. Formatting 3 script is not an ‘exact science’ but, as you'll find, there are industry standards, tion companies and directors are used to scripts that look a certain way, so it's worth getting to grips with industry conventions early on. i's always worth reading your favourite fim scripts for examples of how it's done. There are ‘many sites that can help you track down a free copy of a screenplay online. (a) Make a list of all of the main things to do when turing an idea for a story into a film script. dercy J, 1s aera things to do when S 85 much as possibie 5 Section p; Writing Jinwhich an animal plays an '™Portant part in rY animal, but the Show the emotions story needs to of the animal and how they | the special

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