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FIVE FUNDAMENTAL STEPS IN SCRIPT WRITING
INTRODUCTION
According to Field (2005), screen play is a story told with pictures in dialogue and
description and placed with the context of dramatic structure
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In my own opinion script writing is an idea
that comes to the mind of the writer to put words together to write a script
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Below I will be explaining and describing these five fundamental steps
in script writing
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Statement of intention is an idea, theme or subject that motivates or
pushes the artist to write
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It is indicated in a short paragraph and should
have content meaning that it should be of value
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Below is an example of the statement of intention;

School dropout leads to the youth of Botswana to engage in drugs and substance abuse
which makes them to misbehave
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Statement of intention helps the
writer to choose basic feelings and ethics that will help come up with a perfect script
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Synopsis is a brief
summary of what the play is all about arranged in the order that will appear in the final
script
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The purpose of
a synopsis is to give an outline of a screenplay for the reader
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It is written in present tense so that the reader

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may capture and be able to get what is happening
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The genre and the setting should be
stated when writing a synopsis
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A
synopsis has to have an interesting title
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There are three types of synopsis; the one sentence synopsis, one paragraph
and lastly the one page synopsis
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Below is an example of a synopsis;

GOOD GIRL GONE BAD
BY
NANCY LESEGO SHASHE
This is an action movie set in the present day Maun, about NATASHA BANKI who wants
to build her self esteem after being abused by her husband and being blackmailed by
her husband’s relatives that made her go to prison
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NATASHA got a
job in one of the bars in her hood
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She
is performing well at her workplace and in the community during community
ceremonies
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One night while she is busy at the bar, then comes in
two men
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NATASHA
does not like what this men are doing but she keeps on doing her job
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He talks to
her but she does not respond
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She brings the whisky to him, the moment she puts it in front of him,
he spills it on her face
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She hates men so much
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She knock off from
work and go straight home, she cannot sleep because the incident that happened
earlier at work keeps on playing in her mind and she does not think straight
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She shoots at every man she come across
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Finally NATASHA end up being a
true killer and rude at the same time
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Scenario is a written outline of a film or
stage work which gives details of the plot and individual scenes
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A dramatic potential incidence compresses a situation’s most
important elements
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A scenario is a dramatic unit which consists of a camera
placement that is interior or exterior, characters, location and time
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Example of a scenario
A child is sick and refuses to go to a traditional doctor because she is a Christian
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One day when she was critically ill,
her mother called the traditional doctor
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She did not talk to
her mother
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This part may show the audience that there
are people who are still holding on tradition
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This is now where the scenes are arranged in their
chronological order to tell a story
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All the scenes which are taking place at the same

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time, place with the same characters are stated
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Below is an example of a scene breakdown;

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What will he do? Will he leave them to talk or will he beat them?
The last stage is the actual writing using the correct format
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Scene headings must be included, this is when you indicate the
theme of your script
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More research is essential under
writing
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CONCLUSION
For one to be a successful scriptwriter he/she must apply the five fundamental steps in
scriptwriting which are the statement of intention which is a concept or idea that
pushes the playwright to write
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There is also a
scenario which is basically a written plan of a film giving details of the plot and
individual scenes
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