Create your own TV series

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• Leerroute V
• Leerjaar 5

Create your own TV series

For this assignment you are going to create your own TV series. First you learn about essential elements of tv series. We practise using these elements in class. Then you write a tv series in class for a grade.  For the test you write a pilot episode and a first season overview. At the test you work in pairs. One of you writes a pilot episode and one of you writes a first season overview.

You will learn to:

• develop your own series using the knowledge you already have of the format of TV series.
• create round characters which undergo a development  as the story progresses.
• write clear stage directions  which enhance the story line. 
• explain why you use particular camera angles and how they contribute to your storytelling

Creating well-rounded characters

Effective character building

Describe:   

1. a character’s appearance
   
2. a character’s personality
   
3. a character’s emotions

First and second class: work on guidebook and key scene 

• Divide the work: one of you makes the guidebook. The other writes a key scene from the first episode

3rd  and 4th class: Rewrite your key scene and guidebook

• Handwritten: rewrite your key scene and guidebook. 
• Use one of the prompts given at the start of class. 
• Hand in your rewritten key scene and guidebook at the end of the 100 minute class. (This is indirectly half of your grade. See the rubric.)

Speaking test

Your teacher, the pretend tv executive makes new demands. You need to make more unexpected changes to your key scene and guide book! Respond on the spot.

At the end of the speaking part you are able to:

• interact with ease, linking contributions to those of other speakers.
• widen the scope of the interaction.
• smoothly backtrack and restructure around a difficulty.
• produces clear, smoothly flowing well structured speech with an effective logical structure which helps the recipient to notice and remember significant points. 
• is able to make segways into introduced topics by the teachers.