Sunday, June 2, 2013

Writing the Hansel and Gretel Script

On April 17, 2013 we planned out the script for Hansel and Gretel.
Part 1: Frida--the discussion between the father and step-mother to Hansel and Gretel's departure to the city
Part 2: Gwen--Arrival in the city to meeting the innocent
Part 3: Aishwarya--the interactions with the homeless woman
Part 4: Sam--Hansel and Gretel's discussion about what to do to the innocent coming back
Part 5: Katherine--Innocent has change of heart and helps them to being back in the dorm room
Part 6: Me--video chat with Father to him agreeing to help them pay for college.
Each person is supposed to write about 2 pages for their section, and Mrs. Burke gave us this website for help with script-writing: http://www.playwriting101.com/chapter12. Using this, we could all have the same format for script so it would be easier when we put it all together to edit it.
I actually really enjoyed writing my portion! It was pretty easy since it was modern day, and I kind of just let it flow like how I would imagine a normal conversation going. Then, it was great to see everyone's put together. It ended up actually turning out pretty well for having the whole thing to flow together. The next class, we all sat down and edited the script together to make sure that everything made sense. Obviously, changes had to be made, but there really weren't any major problems. I also created a Google doc that everyone could access so we could all make edits to the same document so that everyone could see the changes as soon as they were made. That was helpful for us so we all had a uniform script and knew what changes other people were making. In fact, when we finished the whole script, my mom was reading it over and was really impressed. She is a writer and a college professor, so to have her tell me that something that high school students wrote was really good was an honor! I think it was also easy and fun because we each only wrote a small portion, so put together it worked really well without someone being swamped with having to write an entire script.

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