Screenplay Profile

Film 33 Introductory Screenwriting Week 3: SCREENPLAY PROFILE

The Screenplay Profile assignment is a one page, double-spaced presentation of the story you intend to develop for the rest of this course. You do not need to adhere slavishly to The Hollywood Structure, but where your story allows, let yourself be inspired by the Screenplay Analysis you wrote last week for Film 2. Use half the profile to set up the 10 pages you will submit as your final assignment. Who is your protagonist, and what is his/her weakness and problem? Is there a past event he/she struggles with, and does this express itself through bad behavior? Then take us through your inciting incident, the first act break, your mid point and the second act break. Who is the antagonist, and what choice does your protagonist face at the climax in act three? How can we tell in the resolution that he/she has changed? Feel free to mention other elements crucial to your screenplay, and don’t be afraid if parts of your story feel corny or undeveloped. This is an early version, and you’ll get to rewrite and expand it for a two-page profile in week 5. Next week, you’ll use this profile as you write the first page of your screenplay. Look to your TA's Webcam Post for further guidelines. If you have additional questions, post them to the Ask Your TA Forum on the Discussion Board.

Assignments must be submitted using the Turnitin links on the WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS page of the course website. Assignments cannot be emailed directly to your Teaching Assistant. The links can be found on the Weekly Assignments tab—look for the icon that looks like a piece of paper with an arrow. For this class, you cannot access Turnitin through MyUCLA. There is a step-by-step tutorial for uploading your assignment to Turnitin on the FAQs for Enrolled Students on the course website. Please be sure confirm that the submission was successful by clicking on the assignment link and going to “My Submissions.”