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Narractive Structure: Battle Royale

Screenplays: Layout Conventions

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1.  A spec script, short for speculative screenplay, is a non-commissioned and a unsought after or wanted script. Usually written by a screenwriter who wants the story to be optioned and hopefully produced and created by a company or producer. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spec_script ) ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/writersroom/entries/8f84e926-feb5-4222-b042-d1368e5ef198 ) 2. Shooting Script is a script a director or cinematographer uses on the set of a motion picture or TV production. They are usually modified or overwritten by a director and follow a specific amount of procedures to help to organise a production, script revisions and how they should be moved around continuously. 3. 4. The font style that is always used on scripts is Courier 12, this is because courier is the original font made by a typewriter, the industries standard, when screenplays were first created. A more technical explanation is that the font is equally spaced, monospaced which means it

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The Crazies : Narrative Structure

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The Crazies (2010) - Narrative "Anarchy reigns when an unknown toxin turns the peaceful citizens of Ogden Marsh into bloodthirsty lunatics. In an effort to contain the spread of the infection, authorities blockade the town and use deadly force to keep anyone from getting in or out. Now trapped among killers, Sheriff Dutten (Timothy Olyphant) and his wife (Radha Mitchell) and two companions must band together to find a way out before madness and death overtake them." An example of two events that cause later events in the film, but occur before the film 'starts' is the government of which are experimenting with chemicals and toxins and must have created a 'crazie' virus, this then lead to the plane falling into the water and infecting the citizens of Ogden Marsh.The second significant event is Judy becoming pregnant, we do not see that, we only see people such as Russel commenting on it "About time!" hinting that they must have bee trying f