Creating an Intercultural Script
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week_9_pwrpt.pptx
Creating
Characters
For a
Multicultural Scene
Step One:
WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW
From jobs, friends, neighbors, relatives, TV, plays, etc.
Be sure each of your three characters has different cultural norms and expectations.
Step Two:
LOOK FOR CHARACTERS
From your home town, people you went to or worked with, dated; people like and unlike you.
People you have researched or studied in this or another course.
People you have seen on TV or film.
Step Three:
CREATE 3 CHARACTERS
With a range of ethnicities/ races/nationalities, ages, educational levels, socioeconomic classes, gender diversities, sexual orientations, regional, religious, political, social differences, etc.
Step Four:
GIVE CHARACTERISTICS
Once you have your mix decided, provide each character with the descriptions they need.
You can find web resources to learn how to do this. Search on topics such as creating fictional characters, creating characters with personality, creating a TV script, etc.
The Most Important Part!
Write 400 words for each character to explain background, cultural identity and behavior. Rely and include information from 5 appropriate sources and provide intext/parenthetical sources.
Why are these characters as they are?
Go looking! Use:
The textbook
Other publications
Course readings
Online resources
Be sure your sources are from reliable sources and not just someone’s opinion.
Step Five:
CREATE THE SETTING
Your current, former or imaginary workplace; your friend’s workplace
A workplace from the movies or TV
Decide why these people work here
Give them short job descriptions and tasks
Give them appropriate tools
Step Six:
LET ‘EM INTERACT A BIT
What’s the situation and who’s involved?
What do they say to each other?
What do they do?
Who interrupts?
Who tries to explain?
WHERE IS THE CONFLICT?
Who misunderstands?
Who’s a good communicator? Who isn’t?
How does the interaction end?
Step Seven:
LET THE SCRIPT JUST SIT
Once you’ve finished the first draft, plan to leave the script for a while, but do these things:
Begin each line with the character’s name
Write what each character says
Put actions in parentheses
Include gestures and expressions
Step Eight:
NOW, SHINE THE SCRIPT
Now return to the script, testing your initial draft against what you learned from your research. Avoid stereotyping!
Include two different scenes in which your characters interact according to the cultural identities you’ve created.
Done? Check the spelling and grammar.
Step Nine:
REQUIREMENTS:
- Introduction to setting and characters
- Stage setting for first scene, and the scene
- Stage setting for second scene, and scene
- Character identities with source support
- Reference page
- Follow the project requirements in the announcements in red and yellow.
HAVE FUN – THEY AREYOUR CHARACTERS!
HAVE FUN –
THEY AREYOUR CHARACTERS!
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Step Ten
