Students Participate
in Scriptwriting Workshop
by Katrina Brown
Several students at HMS this year
have taken drama to an even higher level by writing scripts. Four
students, Katrina Brown, Alex Alford, Tyler York and Frank Hand
became truly interested in scriptwriting and along with their
teacher, Mrs. Narro, participated in a script development workshop
that is held every month at Books & Company in Brookwood
Village. On Jan. 15, there were seventeen writers attending the
workshop including the students from HMS. They learned from
professional scriptwriters and picked up several tips on writing
scripts for the theater and screen . That night, the students helped
an adult with her feature-length script by reading aloud scenes that
had parts for children.
The scriptwriting workshop is more of
a peer group for adults and is nor really taught by any one of them.
Mrs. Angela Burchett assumed a leadership role for that workshop to
try and help the kids. Mrs. Burchett is currently working at the Birmingham
News and she was a scriptwriter for a documentary that was aired
recently on the Alabama Public Television Network called "For
One English Officer". Mr. Paul Godbey, an animator, was
also present at the workshop at Brookwood Village and he has given
Mrs. Narro and the students help in the past by giving a lot of good
suggestions regarding the students' previous performance of "To
Kill A Mockingbird" . Also, Mr. Godbey plans to help the
students write storyboards for the ones who want to produce their
own films.
A few days later Mrs. Burchett came
to Homewood Middle School to help the students with the scripts that
they were writing for a competition that Mrs. Narro had encouraged
them to enter. The goal of the contest was to inspire creative
thinking, writing and collaboration, to motivate students to
complete and submit scripts, to recognize all students'
contributions, to build a collection of award-winning,
student-developed scripts, and maybe win a $500 cash prize for your
program or classroom. There weren't many guidelines, but there were
a few. The script should be positive and age-appropriate, it should
run from three to twelve minutes, characters should be up six
real-life contemporary children or adults, and settings should be
limited to everyday settings.
Caption Photo 1
-Angela Burchett helps Katrina Brown
with her script-
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