Mental Health Awareness
Written by
Ceciliah Martinez
Jacob Hooper
Denise Urrutia
RWS 1301
Dr. Vierra
The University of Texas at El Paso
May 3, 2019
DRAFT #1
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1 MONTAGE OF DIFFERENT FACES OVER Music under (Intro “serious tone”)
0:06 THE SPAN OF SIX SECONDS
Narrator VO: OVER 25000 STUDENTS
ENROLLED FOR THE 2018-19 ACADEMIC
YEAR. COULD YOU TELL WHO’S
SUFFERING
2 CUT TO CENTENIAL PLAZA STUDENTS Narrator VO: 1 in every 5 young
0:12 WALKING FROM UNIION EAST adults experience a serious mental
illness.
Ex. PTSD, social anxiety, such as
depression, BPD, BD..etc
3 CUT TO ANGLE OF STUDENT WALKING Narrator VO: Mental health
0:18 INTO UGLC CLASSROOM, SITTING IN illnesses affect student
BACK ROW persistence by disrupting their
learning capabilities and
redirecting their focus.
4 CUT TO UNION PLAZA – POSTED Narrator VO: We propose that UTEP
0:24 SIGNS AND POSTERS FOR MENTAL holds a mental health awareness
HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK “HOSTED BY week at least once a month to
UTEP” bring awareness towards the issue.
5 CUT TO ANGLE STUDENT WALKING INTO Narrator VO: In order to provide a
0:30 UGLC CLASSROOM, SITTING IN FRONT safe environment UTEP needs to
ROW improve Health services like
counseling without long wait
times.
6 CUT TO OVERVIEW OF UTEP WITH Narrator VO: Call these services
0:36 IMAGE POP UP OF EMERGENCY CONTACT today for more information, and if
SERVICES AND NUMBERS you know someone in need call the
hotline.
7 FADE OUT. END SCENE START OF
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TITLE, NAMES, CLASS,
INSTRUCTOR, DATE, AND REFERENCES
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Film Nomenclature
Here are some scriptwriting terms you can use. You need to use at least
one term in every scene.
ANGLE: Directs the camera to focus on a person or thing.
AD LIB: Instructs actors to make up and fill in dialogue in the scene.
CUT TO: To go from one scene, or element in a scene, to another very
quickly.
DISSOLVE: A film editing technique where one scene "melts" or fades
into another scene.
ESTABLISHING SHOT: Use to be used to give an overall perspective of a
scene.
EXT. Short for exterior, or outside.
FADE IN: This is the start of the screenplay.
FADE OUT: This is the end.
Fg: Stands for Foreground. Used to place an object or person in front
of the scene.
FREEZE FRAME: The image freezes on the screen and becomes a still shot.
INT.: Short for interior, or indoors.
INTERCUT: To go back and forth between to locations, scenes, or
elements in a scene.
INSERT: An item that is inserted into the camera view. Usually a note,
or picture is inserted so the audience can either read what is on the
note, or see the picture.
Master scene heading: Begins each new scene. It consists of three
parts: The LOCATION, PLACE, and TIME of the scene. For example:
* EXT. PLAYGROUND - NIGHT or
* INT. BEDROOM - DAY
MONTAGE or SERIES OF SHOTS: A number of different scenes shown one
after the other. Used to show a number of events passing in a short
period of time.
OS or OC: OFF SCREEN or OFF CAMERA. A character talks, or something
happens out of view of the camera.
OVER THE SHOULDER: A camera shot over the shoulder of a character.
PAN: A camera shot that pivots up and down, or side to side.
PLOT POINT: A turning point, or transition in the screenplay that
propels the screenplay forward.
POV: POINT OF VIEW. The perspective view of one character as they look
at another character or thing in the scene.
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REVERSE SHOT: When two characters are talking to each other and the
camera shifts for one character to the other.
SLOW MOTION: Self-explanatory.
SPLIT SCREEN: The location of the scene is divided in to two, or more
sections.
SUBLIM: A shot lasting less than a second. (The brief flashbacks scenes
usually done when a character is dying and their live flash before
their eyes)
SUPER: A SUPERIMPOSITION. One image merged into another image.
VO: VOICE OVER. Usually used by a narrator of a scene. The character
doing the VO is usually not in the same location as the scene.
ZOOM: A camera focus upon something in the scene.
