This document provides guidelines for writing a screenplay for a short film as part of a creative project. It recommends including a clear vision, descriptive adjectives, and a linear narrative structure that ends with closure or resolution. It also recommends including shot types, camera movements, angles, mise-en-scene details, character performances, soundtracks, and dialogue in screenplay format with scene headings, sluglines, actions, and transitions.

1. St. Andrew’s Catholic School – 64135 FM3: Creative Project – Screenplay
Full Name
Candidate Number
1
Name of the Film/Short Film
OR
Logo
HERE
(Design in Photoshop)
Screenplay
 Create a clear vision in the mind of the reader
 Adjectives – KEY!
 Narrative Structure – Keep it Linear and EITHER end
with some Closure, Resolution or ‘new equilibrium’
(Todorov) OR keep it Open – “Cliff-hanger”
Slugline
SCENE HEADING HERE
1. Where? (Int. ? Ext.?) Location Day? Night? 1.
Action HERE – MUST be descriptive and include Micro Feature
specific information such as:
 Shot Types or ‘Camera Direction’ – CU,MS, LS etc.
 Camera Movement or ‘In-shot changes’ – ZOOM IN
 Angle – EYE-LEVEL, LOW ANGLE, CANTED ANGLE
 Mise-en-scene – Props, Lighting, Setting, Character
appearance
 Performance – Character Movement, Character Behaviour
 Non-diegetic Soundtrack/Voiceover – Name the Artist – ‘Song’
and (where possible) specific lyrics that will play
 Diegetic Dialogue – in italics – for example:
Steve:
What’s going on?!
Dave:
Don’t know mate!
End with a Transition – CUT TO…, DISSOLVE, FADE OUT