Benchmark #07: Scene Group Script

due 11/1–2

Working in a group of four to six classmates, you will combine your Moving Voices Narratives into an artistically cohesive and engaging scene for exhibition night.

Read:

Read your monologues around in a circle. As you’re listening to the other monologues, listen for sentences, moments, and phrases that connect to or offset pieces of yours in interesting ways. Look for connections between all of them.

Discuss:

What connections did you notice? What are your commonalities? Are there any interesting juxtapositions?

Decide:

How do you want to organize your presentation?

Think about:

A montage of pieces at the beginning, then each monologue in its entirety
Interspersing them all so there’s constant back and forth
Have a mix of interspersing and complete monologues
Overlapping or speaking together, like in the poems for two voices

Record:

Elect someone in the group to set up a Google Doc. It’s particularly easy for those who already have a gmail account, but it’s not required. A username and password is all you need for the free service.
Title your document accordingly: “Block A: Scene 1”
Share the document by posting all the email addresses of your group members. That gives everyone in the group the ability to edit the document from any computer, even at home.
Publish the document to the Internet, which gives it its unique url address on the Internet.
Email the web address of your document to Justin (justin@es-metro.org) and Gina (gina@es-metro.org).

Timeline

Thursday and Friday (Nov. 1–2) you will be presenting a first draft of these scripts as Reader’s Theater presentations in the theater. For the first draft, you are not worrying about staging, effects, lights, etc., just your script.

By the end of Project Studio on Nov. 7–8, a complete draft is due, which includes stage directions and is annotated with a storyboard. At this point, your online script must be formatted with correct script style.