Write a two-minute-long script with a minimum of two characters. The rule-of-thumb is a page and a half of dialogue will last about two minutes. Write about what you know or about anything you imagine. The subject, period, place, and language are totally up to you. It is not a film, show dont tell, the actors should speak and perform the actions. It is best to keep the cast small and the location(s) simple with a minimum of stage direction. You will be collaborating with your classmates on how to produce your work as you will work with them on their scripts in a support capacity, such as director, scenic designer, sound designer, costume designer, composer, sound designer, etc. Post your script for class comments in the “Discussions” link.
Discussion Board Question: In a play or film of your choosing, describe one of these elements of storytelling (exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, resolution)?
Exposition: The background, history, or back story, that sets up the plot.
Inciting Incident: the event that sets everything in motion. This moment is when an event thrusts the protagonist into the main action of the story.
Rising Action: Tension increases as the story’s central conflict grows through successive plot development
Climax: The most intense point in the development of a story, its culmination, the point of maximum intensity, or its major turning point.
Falling Action: Occurs after the climax and begins the resolution.
Resolution: The final solution to the “problem” in the story.
