第五章 Writing Drama:Chapter 5 provides students with the knowledge and practice to write many types and styles of dramatic writing and writing for performance. They learn what makes dramatic writing and writing for performance distinctive, and the common properties it shares with the other three genres of creative writing. Students learn about different forms, terminology, and techniques to write dramatic scripts and writing for performance. They gain practice in using these tools to write several of their own scripts and performances using various styles and methods.5.1The 10-Minute Play, The Basic Structure, Characters, Plot, Conflict:In today’s class, we will learn together about some ways for your creative writing to be publicly performed. We will begin with the form of the 10-minute play where you will learn and use the foundational ideas and skills that you can develop in the future into a longer dramatic form like the full-length one-act play or even the classical 3-act play. We will start with a good general structure for a 10-minute play, and learn what we should write in every page.
5.2Theme, Characters, Dialogue:This lecture mainly talks about three important creative writing tools—character, dialogue, and theme in your writing of skillful plays. As writers, much of your role as a student in our class is to build up a suitable arsenal of a writer’s best tools. Therefore, writers should be equipped with useful and effective techniques when they want to write plays more skillfully.
5.3Writing a Film Script:Today it’s my pleasure to welcome Dr. Patrick Pritchett, who knows a lot about writing film scripts. He will explain the meaning of some new ideas: log line, stakes character, and triangle of conflict. We will also learn the tools like monologue, backstory, protagonist, antagonist, and character development.
5.4Audience, Publication, Performing:This is the last lecture of creative writing. This lecture is mainly about audiences, publications and performances. Sharing creative writings completes the circle of communication that is only a semi-circle when we write solely for ourselves. Besides, advice on publications and performances is given in this lecture.
[单选题]A 10-minute play will be approximately________ pages long and laid out using one of the traditional playscript formats.
3
6
10

8
答案:10
[单选题]The 10-minute play is one of the shortest forms of a _________.
three-act play
full-length play
one-act play
short short story[单选题]What is creative writing for Except?
To know ourselves
To be famous
To make our voices heard
To leave a mark on the world[单选题]What can we learn through the model or example of other writers?
Forms, methods
Tools
Innovative ways
All of the options[单选题]In addition to being appropriate to your characters and setting, the content of your dialogue should help reveal the play’s theme, deepen your audience’s insight into your characters, add important details of backstory, and move the plot arc forward.
content of your dialogue
expressions of feelings
personalities of your character
climax of the story[单选题]________becomes foregrounded in the genre of drama, which means it tends to take a more central role than in other genres.
Characterization
Dialogue
Theme
 Plot[单选题]Three of your best tools in writing drama are characters and characterization, dialogue, and________
climax
conflict
theme
plot[单选题]You’ve found that the tools of                          can have a big impact when you are conveying the speaker’s point of view in your poems.
feelings
plot
characterization
settings[单选题]Which of the following sentences is the best definition  of a log line in this lecture?
It is a line to which a ship’s log is attached.
It is a summary of  a television program or film.
It is a one-sentence summary of the script.
It is a knotted cord.[单选题]What can be included in a backstory?
the character’s work experience
the character’s personality
All of the options
the character’s birthplace

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