Professional Studies #5

Today we looked at breaking down a script, starting with the call sheets. I was already familiar with these after having to understand one for when I was on the set of Together. More exciting stuff about this can be found on my blog post here. The one I was given was a lot simpler to the one Mike showed us for one of the scenes in one of the Pirates of the Caribbean films.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/10/03/pirates-of-the-caribbean-5-yo-ho-yawn-the-pros-and-cons-of-another-sequel-4890836/

We then looked at Element colour codes and 'coloured in' a script. The Screenwriting pathway had their scripts printed of (some has multiple ones so I annotated one of Janice's) and Digital were also given a previous student's script to annotate. All the colours made the script look really nice and was overall fun to do.

http://gid71.rageyart.com/Lesson04/L04_learn.html

We also looked at The Rule of 1/8ths, where a page of a script is split into 1/8ths, but measure/mark every scene, not every page. This is put on call sheets and is used to measure out how long a scene is. It is not an exact science and a scene that takes up 1 1/8 of a page might not take as long to film as one which only takes up 4/8th of a page depending on the actual content of the scene.