Thematic Fantastic Checklist

After you finish your scripts, go over the following questions with your group to make sure that  ALL of the following statements reflect your current script.

  1. Script is 100% school appropriate.
  2. Does not contain any violence or racist, sexist or homophobic language.
  3. Does not have anything in your video that would get you into trouble. (Running down hallways, jumping on tables, etc.)
  4. Story has a clear beginning, middle, and end.
  5. Features characters that:
    1. Know what they want.
    2. Have someone or something stop them from getting what they want.
    3. Change over the course of the story.
  6. Has a satisfying ending.
  7. Has shots with specific camera angles and descriptions of what is happening on screen.
  8. This script could be made by anyone and the final video would be the same as if the scriptwriter directed this.

If your video does not meet any of these targets, please address and fix them now. You will still show the final to Strong for him to sign off on.

Dream Sequence Examples

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From Alfred Hitchcock’s Veritgo.

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From Federico Fellini’s 8&1/2