Deck 9: Writing Techniques for Long-Form Scripts

Question 1

Characters are always human.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

For believable conflict, most stories need

A) a great writer and director
B) a protagonist and an antagonist
C) friendly cast and crew
D) good actors, locations, and a great script

Answer 2

B

Question 3

There are many different devices used in comedy writing.choose all that apply

A) Dramatic Irony
B) Running Gag
C) Visual Gag
D) Cover up/Impersonation
E) Disguise and Mistaken Identity
F) all of the above

Answer 3

F

Question 4

For an audience to remain interested in the character, the character has to be someone the audience can identify with

Question 5

Two engines of a story are _ __ and __ ___.

Question 6

Dialogue in films and television has to be realistic, which means: (Pick all that apply)

A) the characters have to speak in character
B) each character has to have a heavy dialect
C) characters have to sound as if they're real
D) characters have to be believable

Question 7

Movie dialogue is sparse because audience would rather watch what the characters are doing not listen to what they're saying.

Question 8

Dialogue is way to fill time between the action scenes.

Question 9

A unit of composition in a screenplay is

A) dialogue
B) action
C) scene
D) act

Question 10

Explain what a cliché is and how we would see it in a movie.

Question 11

Writing good dialogue is easy.

Question 12

Cover up and impersonation always involves:

A) a detective and the police force
B) a murder
C) a change of clothing for the actor
D) a degree of suspense

Question 13

Visual gags are found in _________

Question 14

The plot is the mechanism seen as the embedded structure of a movie or screenplay.