12th grade Spelling
excessively mournful
lugubrious
The number of Acts in a standard short story structure. It's also the same for film structure.
3
Is a full length written summary of the story, featuring major characters and major plot points, included in the script coverage?
Yes.
[He] believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. And one fine morning—— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
The Great Gatsby
This infamous American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, burglar, and necrophile, assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls (admitted himself to killing 30) during the 1970s.
Hint: Zach Efron recently portrayed him the movie, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.
Ted Bundy
marked by temperance in indulgence
abstemious
Which of these do not have be included in the first act:
A.) Main character
B.) Problem
C.) Antagonist
d.) Goal
C.) Antagonist
Which is NOT a category of script analysis:
A.) Setting/Visuals
B.) Concept
C.) Writing Style
D.) Marketability
E.) All of them are.
E.) All of them are!!!
She moved slowly to the corner and stood looking down at the wasted face, into the wide, frightened eyes. Then slowly she lay down beside him. He shook his head slowly from side to side. [She] loosened one side of the blanket and bared her breast. “You got to,” she said. She squirmed closer and pulled his head close. “There!” she said. “There.” Her hand moved behind his head and supported it. Her fingers moved gently in his hair. She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously.
Grapes of Wrath
This effect, coined after the TV show, is said to have changed the way many trials are presented today, in that prosecutors are pressured to deliver more forensic evidence in court. Victims and their families are coming to expect instant answers from showcased techniques such as DNA analysis and fingerprinting, when actual forensic processing often takes days or weeks, with no guarantee of revealing a "smoking gun" for the prosecution's case.
The CSI effect
a fear of foreigners or strangers
xenophobia
What is another term for the two turning points in the story?
Plot Points
What was the full exact name of the Twilight Zone script we read in class?
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
"Whoever done it, they’re not going to be carrying a thing like that around with 285 them longer than they need.”
One of them belched. “Personally, I think it’s right here on the premises.”
“Probably right under our very noses. What you think, Jack?”
And in the other room, Mary Maloney began to giggle.
Lamb to the Slaughter
Made most famous by the academy award portrayal by Anthony Hopkins, this famous book from 1988 depicts cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter, this time pitted against FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling.
Silence of the Lambs
the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
laissez faire
Each act should be what % in length of the overall story....
A.) 15%, 70%, 15%
B.) 25%, 50%, 25%
C.) 30%, 60%, 10%
D.) 33.3%, 33.3%, 33.3%
B.)
First act - first 25%
Second Act - 50%
Third Act - final 25%
What is the name for the 1-2 sentence summary of the story:
A.) Slugline
B.) Logline
C.) Storyline
d.) Synopsis
b.) Logline
”So they boarded a starship and went from world to world. Wherever they stopped, he was always [character name], itinerant speaker for the dead, and she was always Valentine, historian errant, writing down the stories of the living while [he] spoke the stories of the dead. And always [he] carried with him a dry white cocoon, looking for the world where the hive-queen could awaken and thrive in peace. He looked a long time.
Ender's Game
This famous short story ends with a villager winning a raffle of sorts. Her prize: she is stoned to death.
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
a free man who cultivates his own land
Yeoman
Plot Point # 2 is also known as: "The Moment of ____".
Apparent defeat.
What is the job title at studios/production companies of the people in hollywood who are generally tasked with doing script coverage?
Interns or Assistants
"He just rode on past and he had this blanket wrapped around him and he had his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.”
No Country For Old Men
Generally considered America's first serial killer, this man was was also a con artist and a bigamist, the subject of more than 50 lawsuits in Chicago alone.
H.H. Holmes
In 2017, amid allegations Holmes had in fact escaped execution, Holmes' body was exhumed for testing. Due to his coffin being contained in cement, his body was found not to have decomposed normally. His clothes were almost perfectly preserved and his mustache was found to be intact. The body was positively identified as being that of Holmes with his teeth. Holmes was then reburie