Unit 22 - Scripting in Media

Synopsis of Jaws split into acts: Act 1: In the New England beach town of Amity Island, a young woman goes for a late-night ocean swim during a beach party. An unseen force attacks and pulls her underwater. Her remains are found washed up on the beach the next morning. After the medical examiner concludes it was a shark attack, newly hired police chief Martin Brody closes the beaches; Mayor Larry Vaughn persuades him to reconsider, fearing the town's summer economy will suffer. The coroner, apparently under pressure, now concurs with the mayor's theory that it was a boating accident. Brody reluctantly accepts their conclusion until a young boy, Alex Kintner, is killed at a crowded beach. A bounty is placed on the shark, causing an amateur shark-hunting frenzy. Quint, an eccentric and roughened local shark hunter, offers his services for $10,000. Consulting oceanographer Matt Hooper examines the girl's remains, confirming that an abnormally large shark killed her. Act 2: Whe...

Different script formats: Film - setting, scene transition, dialogue, character emotion and actions TV - audio and video is separated into columns, setting, dialogue, character emotion and actions Radio - dialogue, sound affects and cues Video games - dialogue options, cut scene dialogue and character actions   Screenplay - a script for a TV program or film Shooting script - camera angles added by director and cinematographer Slug line - tells the reader where the scene takes place Action - sets the scene, describes the setting and introduces the characters Character names - formatted in uppercase Dialogue - generic term for whenever someone speaks Parenthetical - describes how a character speaks Extensions - notes places on the left of someones name

Modes of address can be defined as the ways in which relations between addresser and addressee are constructed in a text. In order to communicate, a producer of any text must make some assumptions about an intended audience; reflections of such assumptions may be discerned in the text (advertisements offer particularly clear examples of this). Mode of address - Language used is more informal and chatty (spoken to the audience) Formal mode of address - Where the language is formal and instructional (spoken to the audience) Point of view - Whether a script has an identifiable "I" or a 3rd person view  Modes of address - Is the reader of the text directly addressed or not  Tense - Is it in the past, present or future tense Elaborate code - Language that included technical terms (less predictable and more unique) Restricted code - Language is more informal and easy to understand (more structured)

Examples of media products that use a script: TV Shows - dramas, news, sitcom, comedy (scripted), documentaries Video games - depends if there is dialogue  Films - all types Radio