K-12 Film Script

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Thatis what makes them great study material for the next generation of young minds, and why Final Draft developed the K-12 Workbook. We're all taught the fundamentals of writing in school: how to spell, the beginning-middle-end of a story, but what about the language of screenwriting? How does one properly craft a script? And more importantly, how can teachers incorporate the study of screenwriting into their curriculum?

NOTE: We know K-12 is a vast landscape of varied maturity and understanding, but the Final Draft Workbook is designed to provide the basics that can be tailored to needed complexity levels. It's the jumping off point for your students' creativity. Yeah, you could always assign another book report... But why not help them write something they'll actually remember?

PARENTHETICAL and TRANSITION are not required as much, but available. SHOT is also available, but use sparingly. This quick tutorial shows how easy it will be to teach your students scriptwriting format when Final Draft provides all the tools necessary. There are also samples and breakdowns in the workbook.

The Final Draft K-12 Workbook was complied by some of the finest educators and screenwriters around to break down the nuts and bolts of the craft, with exercises designed to turn your class into fun teaching sessions. Your students will learn some incredibly varied and helpful skills that also dovetail nicely into your own curriculum.

Young people today experience video as a daily experience with Tic Tok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitch, etc. They will find much of this material instantly accessible and relatable because of their digital literacy at a very young age. To them, this is water and they are fish able to swim and thrive in it; almost born to it.

With an older group of students, various schemes are discussed as ways to get students engaged in visual storytelling through scriptwriting. These exercises can be 2-3 class sessions, or parts of an entire semester. Adapting to your age group, class realities, and current (virtual/on site) situation is wide open and can add a lot of excitement and benefits to your teaching.

Includes sections like The 5 Questions, The Screenplay, Directing The Actor, The Shot List, Editing, and Film Production. These are broken down in terrific detail, providing easy exercises to make your job as a teacher and guide to the filmmaking world a snap. Chapter Four also includes a cool rubric with various factors listed.

Is filled with great project exercises to continue the teaching. How about tapping into the social conscience of your group by having them write a PSA? A trailer for a historical blockbuster, which also means research into the subject? Or perhaps focus on a commercial using a famous inventor as either a character or product line, again involving research which teaches without teaching in an engaging manner.

Imagine writing an American Revolution script. It requires months of research that could ultimately be a life-changing experience. President Washington as a pitch man for a dental group? Einstein doing a commercial for an Apple product? Genius! (ahem).

Take a blank story template and have the students fill it in. Younger students can verbally fill it in with your guidance. Then, have them each draw the story using stick figures. This is an important part of the screenwriting process called STORYBOARDING. You can learn more about how Final Draft incorporates this step into their features here.

This Fill-Ins exercise clearly shows the connection between words and visual imagery, and teaches story narrative (how to sequence events) which is a vital communication technique for students of all ages. You or students (if of age) can then create a script using Final Draft, and the students can then draw the figures into a sequence of scenes using the StoryBoard template in Final Draft.

If you've got a young crowd, one with a short attention span, or just want to dive right into the screenwriting process, adapting a well-known story is the perfect place to start learning how. You can engage even the youngest of the group through verbal idea exchanges, which can then be acted out or produced into a visual medium.

This fun distortion of the typical tropes in animated tales makes for a fun and creative way to teach a slew of concepts. How about having students pick something they see in the world (like a homeless person, a playground, or a parade of some sort) and write a script about it? We bet you'll get as many viewpoints as students in your class. Film has always reflected our society, and children have a beautiful, unfiltered way of expression themselves that could create amazing visual art.

It may take some fiddling and tweaking, but your classroom can become an even more dynamic and fun forum for learning, bonding, and fruitful interaction using the Final Draft K-12 Workbook to teach scriptwriting.

The only limit in using Final Draft in your classes to teach students film and storytelling is your imagination. Everyone has the ability to tell story, this is simply a new and exciting way to do it. Look to the templates and examples combined with the concepts in the Workbook, to find ways to bring different exercises into your classroom and watch your students unlock their potential.

Melanie began writing the script in the summer of 2017 and finished it in February 2018. The script was then cut down and sent in during mid-2018,[6] with filming taking place in Europe throughout late 2018. The film was edited in early 2019.

The film portrays the story of Melanie's sophomore album. It contains the music videos for all thirteen songs from K-12 with dialogue in between each one, [8] making it an hour and a half long.[9] The videos themselves were also individually released over time.[10]

Cry Baby, a strong yet sensitive girl, is sent off to a sleepaway school that hides its wickedness underneath a grandiose faade. Luckily, she has a sweet and unapologetic best friend, Angelita, who sticks up for her when she gets bullied by the other students (whose brains are under control by the Principal and his wicked staff). With the help of the magical friends they meet along the way, as well as an Angelic Spirit Guide, they are able to gain the strength they need to fight off the school's belligerent patriarchal conditioning.

Cry Baby wakes up hesitant for her first day at K-12 Sleepaway School. Realizing that her mother passed out due to excessive drinking, she knows that she will have to walk to the bus stop ("Angels Song"). On the ride to school, she is bullied by the other students for having a gap between her teeth and sits next to her best friend Angelita ("Wheels On the Bus"). They are both revealed to have powers that turn their eyes completely black. The bus driver becomes distracted by the students who are misbehaving and swerves into a lake. Cry Baby and Angelita use their powers to lift the bus out of the water and into the sky, before landing it at the school.

Cry Baby and Angelita arrive late to Ms. Daphne's class and are scolded by her. The students recite the rule about tardiness: "when the bell rings, you must be in your assigned seat." The students are then made to stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance; however, a boy named Henry remains seated and points out that America is not really the land of the free. This results in him being dragged away by the guards, leaving his fate unknown. During class, a popular mean girl named Kelly becomes jealous of Cry Baby because she has been flirting with Kelly's boyfriend Brandon. Because of her jealousy, Kelly writes a disturbing letter for Cry Baby saying "You at Recess" accompanied by a dead stick person and a tombstone. At nap time, Cry Baby shows Angelita the letter. Cry Baby expresses her worries that she has no chance at winning since she doesn't know how to fight, to which Angelita suggests that she uses her powers. Cry Baby refuses, stating that it would be cheating. At recess, Kelly begins punching Cry Baby and cuts her arm with a pocket knife, until Cry Baby levitates and attempts to strangle Kelly with her braids. Ms. Daphne soon sees what is happening and stops the fight, sending both of the girls to the Principal's Office, ("Class Fight").

In the Principal's Office, the Principal fires Ms. Harper for being transitioning (another way of saying she is transgender/becoming a girl). Immediately after, Cry Baby finds out from a boy named Thomas that the Principal forces the students to take pills in order to control them and stop them from leaving the school. Angered, she uses her powers to call him on the phone and insults him, calling him out on everything he has done wrong. The Principal begins coughing after having a drink, implying that he was poisoned. In tears, Ms. Daphne orders the Bunny Doctors to cure him, which they do ("The Principal"). Cry Baby becomes a marionette puppet to entertain the students during show and tell until Ms. Penelope drops her, causing her to have a nosebleed and exposing her intestines, which grosses the students out ("Show & Tell"). Outside of the Nurse's Office, Angelita turns Cry Baby back into a human. The nurses attempt to keep them restrained and under control ("Nurse's Office") until an angelic spirit guide named Lilith frees Cry Baby and Angelita. She attacks the nurses and Bunny Doctors.

During drama class, Cry Baby expresses her discomfort in being placed in a "domestic" role in the school play, instead wishing to play a strong role such as a film director or the President of the United States. The drama teacher, Mr. Cornwell, dismisses her concerns and calls in the guards to restrain her when she attempts to leave. Cry Baby is forced to play the role she was assigned, although the events take a turn when she presses a hot clothes iron to another student's face. She then warns the students in the auditorium that they are being brainwashed and uses her powers to defeat the guards and free the students. The students rush to the Principal's Office at Cry Baby's order and begin tearing him apart, killing him ("Drama Club"). Cry Baby and Angelita bury the body, then leave to play tennis with their friend Celeste. Due to a bubble blown by Cry Baby, the tennis ball floats away to a boy named Ben.

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