creative

1. Creative writing
S C R I P T : I L O V E Y O U P .
S H O R T S T O R Y : F I R E F L Y
T U T O R : L O U I S E T U C K E R
S T U D E N T : S A P N A B E G U M

2. INITIAL IDEAS - Script
Original idea
• Genre: crime, drama
• Two young boys
• Mother has financial problems
(antagonist)
• Successful student joins gang to help financial
• Plot twist – mother is in gang and son joins opposing
• Script/prose?

3. COSTA SHORT STORIES
1. Originality: ideas, voice, impact
2. Grammar, format and layout
3. Characterisation and
dialogue
4. Form and genre
5. Style and appropriate use
of form and genre.
6. Other story elements (eg
pace, flow, tension, audience
engagement, etc)

4. INSPIRATION – Top Boy
• Also uses children
• Feeling to protect
• Feeling to use
• Drug action
• Search for hope/better life

5. INSPIRATION – Shiro’s Story
• Child at the centre
• Showing fatherly
love
• Activities to
include both

6. FEEDBACK ON IDEA – Script
• Bring in more characters
• Change ending too dramatic + not enough space
• Moral message

7. 10 QUESTIONS - Script
 What did I learn?
• Structure of
beginning/middle/end for
script
• Questions that sum up my
character
2) What do they need?
4) What do they want?
8) What do they learn?
• Difficult questions
7) Why should we care?
10) How does it end?

8. CHARACTER STORYBOARDS
• Sheena needs more development
• Joseph needs purpose

9. FEEDBACK ON FIRST PAGES - Script
• Correct formatting
• How to use (beat)
• Always describe location
• Correctly use actions
• Symbol – shoes

10. FEEDBACK ON FIRST DRAFT – Script
STRENGTHS
•Characterisation
•Language
•Structure/pace
•Impact
WEAKNESSES
•Patrick left alone
•Show not tell
•Ending

11. ENDINGS
How has it changed?
 End with voice over – genre
 More finished conclusion

12. FEEDBACK ON FIRST DRAFT – Short story
• Representation of power
• Why, what, who, when , where, how.
• Too much going on?

13. 10 QUESTIONS – Short story

14. STRUCTURE EDIT, LINE EDIT, COPY EDIT
Start from the
middle
• Straight into
action
• Line cutting