Scriptwriting Bundle
Our Scriptwriting Bundle is aimed at upskilling senior students (upper KS3, senior phase GET and IB Diploma Program) using a cross-curricular approach which intersects with English Language and Literature, Media Studies and Visual Arts. This entire bundle is expected to be achievable for students over the course of 8 to 12 weeks when using a 2 hours per week lesson model.
Inclusive of a 36-page upskilling workbook which covers the following topics using interactive discussion starters, scaffolded theory knowledge with a range of associated activities and tasks, as well as progress checkpoints for AFL:
- Target Tracker and Scriptwriting Rubric: adapted using GCSE and A-level drama and theatre studies rubrics
- Scriptwriting Journal Task: this is the mastery task with full explanation on how to achieve success across multiple media (options for scripting for live theatre, TV series, film and digital gaming platforms)
- Back to Basics: a revision guide to support differentiated learning strategies and constant engagement with drama lingo
- Music as a Stimulus: exploring the use of music and creative, conceptual requirements around scriptwriting
- Scenography: a basic set of activities around the four main stage spaces (for live theatre scripts)
- Filmed Media Cinematography: a basic set of activities around the mise-en-scene for any media which is filmed (for television, cinema and gaming scripts)
- PostModernism: a theory-based section of the workbook aimed at supporting students to engage with stylistic choices and the act of applying knowledge from one medium into another
- Progress Checkpoint: an AFL knowledge-audit to help educators in assessing the student's ability to self-critique and to support further conversations around the devising components for exam-level work
- Character Sketches: full biographical character considerations with two asscoiated mindmap and moodboard tasks
- Fix It Targets: a progress checkpoint space for students to consider the skills they've learned and how they could potentially improve them
This bundle also inlcudes a 72-slide upskilling Powerpoint Presentation which follows the same structure as the workbook whilst also leaving space for teachers to adapt content for their cohorts as they see fit:
- Direct links to workbook content
- Visually appealing cross-curricular approach
- Back to Basics revision section
- Homework and discussion tasks embedded throughout
- Freewriting prompts (songs, words and imagery)
- Links to Postmodernism YouTube videos (vetted content)
- Opportunities for extension and differentiation work throughout
- Scaffolded lesson to achieve mastery task
Approximately 100 hours of resource-building time saved.
