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Annotating scripts:

Name of show: Game of Thrones	Quote	Explain
Style	EXT. CLEARING – DAY ^Slugline Snow drifts across the bodies of the fallen dead. Eight corpses lie frozen on the ground—men, woman, and children, wearing heavy furs. The wind whips, through their long hair. At the edge of the clearing, WILL (20), a young ranger dressed all in black, surveys the grim scene from the back of his gelding. He gathers his reins and guides his horse south. ^Action, with paragraph breaks WILL We should start back. They’re all dead. -Action part- SER WAYMAR Any blood? WILL Not that I saw SER WAYMAR How close did you get? WILL Close enough to see they was dead ^Dialogue, with action/ but I didn’t copy the action and paste it in, so its just the dialogue SER WAYMAR (skeptical) Or sleeping? ^The ( ) part is a dialogue parenthetical	Slugline: They use INT or EXT at the start of every scene, int being the interior, so its indie and ext being the exterior, being outside, it’s how they introduce the time of day and setting Action: This is used to describe characters, locations in further detail to set an atmosphere and to describe the motion/action the characters are doing. It describes what you can see, so if you saw dead bodies or rain. It can also be implied with capitalization, the rain was hitting the ground HARD, would add emphasis on the rain. You can also introduce new characters in it but you have to put their names in capitals. When you do an action you have to have paragraph breaks or it will be difficult to read. It can also give you ideas about how the character acts, like if they were shy or confident. Dialogue: It can tell you what kind of character they are, so if they use a lot of swears then you can see that they are angry or annoyed or if they are stuttering you can tell they are either scared or upset. Or it can tell you what time period they speak in or if they have an accent. Dialogue parentheticals: This is where you add how they would say the dialogue if its not clear.
Content	At the edge of the clearing, WILL (20), a young ranger dressed all in black, surveys the grim scene from the back of his gelding. He gathers his reins and guides his horse south. ^They describe what he looks like when introducing.	Characters: How they introduce the characters? Why in that way? How does the character and what they want to become known to the reader? ^ Will has been introduced through an end of battle scene/ so after there was a battle the character appeared. When Will starts talking they want you to know that hes being serious and another character who is introduced a second later is being a bit funny about it – in the weird way not the joke way because he asks any blood and Will says no and says how he was close enough to see them dead then ser waymar, the new character introduced says or sleeping. Locations: The locations are introduced through the slugline and then they describe the location more through the action and then this gives a morbid atmosphere, since they pay attention to describing the bodies on the ground and the weather, since its snowing so it will be dark.
Narrative structure	^They start off with one plot then where it says END CREDIT SEQUENCE, it starts another one, because they moved to a different person and location. ^It's not straight forward since a new plot has been made and it goes back and forth between these different scenes.	Multi-stranded narrative - Where they interweave multiple plots and start different ones. Non-Linear -where its not straight forward.
Genre	ROBB Put your sword away. We’re keeping them. VISERYS I could sweep the seven kingdoms with ten thousand Dothraki screamers behind me. The people will be with us. They cry out for their true king. VISERYS You see how long his hair is? When Dothraki are defeated in combat, they cut off their braids in disgrace, so the world will never know their shame. Khal Drogo has never been defeated. A savage, of course, but one of the finest killers alive. And you will be his queen.	It’s a fantasy, action. You can tell this from: < This tells us that because they use swords, therefore there will be some form of fighting making it an action and fantasies have swords in them too and they normally have kingdoms. And the names sound fantasy like. It’s also historical since they talk about disgrace, since that use to be a thing, to do with rich families and things like that.
Target audience	Snow drifts across the bodies of the fallen dead. Eight corpses lie frozen on the ground ^The dead bodies imply that there is action and guys like action.	I would say the target audience is teenagers-adults or maybe just adults. Specifically boys. Aged range from either 18-24 or 20-30, since some will be interested in the action or most so that’s why they would watch it.

I liked this script because of the introduction and description used at the start, it really sets the atmosphere. The action parts with the description of characters and setting was described well and detailed but short, so it would get to the point being specific at the same time - Few words with lots of meaning/description. The action happens straight away, making it interesting.

Name of show: Alien	Quote	Explain
Style	INT. ENGINE ROOM ^Slugline – doesn’t say the time – possibly because it’s not important. Empty, cavernous. ^They only describe the setting in the engine room as that, giving it that abandoned feel – this was describe in the action part. Kane plugs in a silex. Lights a cigarette. Coughs. ^This was when they introduced their first character. KANE Now Dallas and Ash. (calls out) Good morning Captain. ^Here they introduce two new characters through dialogue instead of through an action. After her name is the dialogue. KANE (voice over) What do you care. ^It’s the text in brackets.	Slugline – Where they use INT and EXT, which tells you where the location is and the time of day and if it’s inside (interior-INT) or outside (exterior-EXT) Action – This tells you what you can see on the screen and you can use metaphors to describe certain parts to add emphasis to what it might look like. Its where you describe the characters and setting in more detail if you want to give an atmosphere. Characters can also be introduced in this. Dialogue – This is when a character speaks. Dialogue parentheticals – When they add something under the name before the dialogue to be more specific with how they want the tone of the character to be. It can also be and action.
Content	Kane plugs in a silex. Lights a cigarette. Coughs. Empty, cavernous. ^Engine room. Long, empty. ^Corridor Black, empty. ^Corridor to bridge	They introduce the first character with a sort of addiction, this is because they say about how the person lights a cigarette and people get addicted to that. Also they say they cough and this can occur when you smoke too much. They might have introduced him in this way because they want you to show that he has that serious attitude because in films they have that part where they talk about serious things and they then light a cigarette. The locations they introduce are; the engine room, a corridor, a corridor to a bridge and others. They describe each as being empty. This gives a lonely feel to it and gives a creepy atmosphere because it seems like the place is abandoned.
Narrative structure		Single narrative (single strand) – Having one plot, rather than having many plots. ^It carries on with their plot to do with aliens and how Kane is doing and they introduce more characters to the plot. Simply linear – tells you what happens from one point in time to the next without using flashbacks. – they just continue moving the plot forward.
Genre	SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE	The genre is sci-fi. You can tell this from the very first part. Then there are other parts where it tells you, when it talks about space.
Target audience	INT. HYPERSLEEP VAULT Explosion of escaping gas. The lid on a freezer pops open. ^Here you can see the action because of the explosion.	I think the target audience is boys. This is because the genre is a sci-fi – involving aliens. I think the age range is 15-30, because the age rating for this film is a 15. There’s also action in it and horror, which is what some guys like.

This script was alright, seems a bit boring, not much is happening at the start, but its because its trying to build up the atmosphere and save the aliens for later, this could possibly get you on edge since its like oh no what will it look like, what was that.

Name of show:	Quote	Explain
Style	INT. TYRELL CORPORATION LOCKER ROOM – DAY ^ Slugline Its magnified and deeply revealed. Flecks of green and yellow in a field of milky blue. Icy filaments surrounding the undulating center. ^Action LEON Okay if I talk? HOLDEN (cutting in) Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention. Answer quickly as you can. ^ The ( ) is the diaglogue parenthetical	Slugline – Where they use INT and EXT, which tells you where the location is and the time of day and if it’s inside (interior-INT) or outside (exterior-EXT) Action – This tells you what you can see on the screen and you can use metaphors to describe certain parts to add emphasis to what it might look like. Its where you describe the characters and setting in more detail if you want to give an atmosphere. Characters can also be introduced in this. Dialogue – This is when a character speaks. Dialogue parentheticals – When they add something under the name before the dialogue to be more specific with how they want the tone of the character to be. It can also be and action.
Content	The instrument is no bigger than a music box and sits on a table between two men. The man talking is big, looks like an over-stuffed kid. “LEON” it says on his breast pocket. He’s dressed in a warehouseman’s uniform and his pudgy hands are folded expectantly in his lap. Despite the obvious heat, he looks very cool. ^ They describe him/introduce him like this to show how cool he is/looks and They want to show that he’s intimidating. its magnified and deeply revealed. Flecks of green and yellow in a field of milky blue. Icy filaments surrounding the undulating center.	The character Leon is introduced through describing what he looks like and what is near him. The locations they introduce give off a calming, spooky atmosphere, because they say how the sky is milky, so the sky could be calming and then spooky because you see these flickers of light. This is significant because it could be meaning something is coming – that’s why they said about flickering lights.
Narrative structure		There is a single narrative (single strand) – Having one plot. ^ They have one plot in it because they continue telling you about the characters and what’s happening and aren’t starting any others. Non-Linear – Where the plot moves forward and back – They added in a flashback so it moved back and forth there.
Genre	Its magnified and deeply revealed. Flecks of green and yellow in a field of milky blue. Icy filaments surrounding the undulating center.	I think the genre is sci-fi, this is because they talk about lights flecking in the sky – different colours- so there could be aliens coming. And they talk about how its magnified.
Target audience		I think the target audience is boys, ages from 15-30. This is because of the way they describe the scene, it makes it sound like an action and boys/ guys like action.