Wednesday, November 21, 2012

General Skills For Writing A Script For A Play

By Dianne Crane


Adjudicators are professionals hired to creatively scrutinize a script and provide useful feedback in relation to the performance. The most useful adjudications delve into the details of the overall production and performance. Though it is difficult to consider the many facets of scripting, it is good to attempt and visit all the specific areas. The following areas need to be checked out when analyzing a performance or a script for a play.

The person judging your scripts need not impose his own interpretations or tastes. Personal feeling can be useful but they should not take center stage. This is because they do not only jeopardize creativity but also limit the writer into only a given style. As a rule of thumb, the writings should reflect the society and have an artistic impact.

Stage set needs to be safe and easy to set. Ask yourself if the set is practical, offering the actors areas to perform with clear exits and entrances. A good set is the one that reflects the intention of scripts and has to create a specific mood. Focus on the color, depth or line and ensure that they depict the correct intention.

While the actor plays a bigger role in the whole production, the words and direction words also play an equally large part. Clearly check for the right sound effects that emphasize a scene or need to intensify a situation. The sound has to fit the mood and the style of the skit. Remember to insert words that describe the kind of costumes to be used so that the technical teams can design appropriate ones.

Directors do not love it when you direct them. Space some room for them to show what they are made of. Areas of blocking actors, considering what visual effects to use and how to use space are the work of directors. They create the right mood and set the pace. These experts know when to bring out climax or anticlimax to get you glued to the end of the show.

Scripts delve on plots and this is one area you need to figure out yourself. Know what scenes fall where and what follows what. You need to balance and imbalance characters to achieve climax and anticlimax levels so that the show can be entertaining. Build an orderly flow and ensure that everything unfolds in a reasonable format.

Dialogue is a tough area to tackle. It is very hard to teach dialogue. One has to develop an ear for the way people really speak and not how you think they speak. Listen to people from various backgrounds and in different situations as often as you can. You will probably discover that people are not very eloquent in general.

Do not write what you can show. Everybody involved in producing a script for a play should be given enough room to expand your work to their creativity. This cannot be a headache after all if you have all the facts at your finger tips.




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