Marriage Equality

Written by Ivana Ganem

Luis Tovar
Wendy Perez

RWS 1301
Instructor
The University of Texas at El Paso
Date
DRAFT #1
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1 WHAT IS THE AUDIENCE IS SEEING OR WHAT IS THE AUDIENCE HEARING?
0:06 READING?
What is being said?
IMAGE OF A GAY WEDDING.
Nar: Marriage Equality is the
idea that same-sex couples have
the right to marry and receive
civil benefits.

(Uplifting/happy music)

2 IMAGE OF THE WORLD, SHOWING WHERE Nar: There are currently 27

0:12 SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS LEGAL. countries that allow same-sex
marriages
IMAGE: PEWRESEARCH

3 IMAGES OF VARIOUS COUPLES THAT ARE Nar: Would you like to have the
0:18 HAPPY/KISSING/HUGGING/GETTING right to marry someone that you
MARRIED love?

4 BLACK BACKGROUND WITH PURE TEXT (Sad music)

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TEXT: DID YOU KNOW THAT SAME-SEX Nar: Did you know that same-sex
MARRIAGE AND OR HOMOSEXUAL ACTS ARE marriage and or homosexual acts
ILLEGAL IN 73 COUNTRIES? are illegal in 73 countries?

5 MAP WHERE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE/ (sad music)

0:30 HOMOSEXUAL ACTS ARE ILLEGAL
Audience is focused on the
IMAGE: INDEPENDENT image.

6 IMAGE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SAME-SEX (change in music, hopeful)

0:36 MARRIAGES
Nar: Same-sex marriages can
IMAGE: PEWTRUST help boost a countries economy

7 WEDDING CAKE PROPS Nar: Same-sex marriages can

0:42 help a society be more
IMAGE OF SAME-SEX COUPLES BEING accepting and less
EMBRACED discriminatory.
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8 IMAGES OF PEOPLE STATING THAT IT IS Nar: Same-sex marriage is a
0:48 THEIR RIGHT. fundamental right.
MARCHES/COUPLES/INDIVIDUALS/POSTERS

9 IMAGES OF WEBSITE LOGOS AND LINKS TO Nar: Help donate to these

0:54 DONATE. organizations to help advance
marriage equality where it is
TEXT: illegal.

LOGO

WWW.HRC.ORG

LOGO

WWW.CGDEV.ORG

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Editors: Ivana Ganem

Wendy Perez

Luis Tovar

Sources:

Pew Research Center

Independent

PewTrust

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Film Nomenclature
Here are some scriptwriting terms you can use. You need to use at least
one term in every scene.

ANGLE: Directs the camera to focus on a person or thing.

AD LIB: Instructs actors to make up and fill in dialogue in the scene.
CUT TO: To go from one scene, or element in a scene, to another very
quickly.
DISSOLVE: A film editing technique where one scene "melts" or fades
into another scene.
ESTABLISHING SHOT: Use to be used to give an overall perspective of a
scene.
EXT. Short for exterior, or outside.
FADE IN: This is the start of the screenplay.
FADE OUT: This is the end.
Fg: Stands for Foreground. Used to place an object or person in front
of the scene.
FREEZE FRAME: The image freezes on the screen and becomes a still shot.
INT.: Short for interior, or indoors.
INTERCUT: To go back and forth between to locations, scenes, or
elements in a scene.
INSERT: An item that is inserted into the camera view. Usually a note,
or picture is inserted so the audience can either read what is on the
note, or see the picture.
Master scene heading: Begins each new scene. It consists of three
parts: The LOCATION, PLACE, and TIME of the scene. For example:
* EXT. PLAYGROUND - NIGHT or
* INT. BEDROOM - DAY
MONTAGE or SERIES OF SHOTS: A number of different scenes shown one
after the other. Used to show a number of events passing in a short
period of time.
OS or OC: OFF SCREEN or OFF CAMERA. A character talks, or something
happens out of view of the camera.
OVER THE SHOULDER: A camera shot over the shoulder of a character.
PAN: A camera shot that pivots up and down, or side to side.
PLOT POINT: A turning point, or transition in the screenplay that
propels the screenplay forward.
POV: POINT OF VIEW. The perspective view of one character as they look
at another character or thing in the scene.
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REVERSE SHOT: When two characters are talking to each other and the
camera shifts for one character to the other.
SLOW MOTION: Self-explanatory.
SPLIT SCREEN: The location of the scene is divided in to two, or more
sections.
SUBLIM: A shot lasting less than a second. (The brief flashbacks scenes
usually done when a character is dying and their live flash before
their eyes)
SUPER: A SUPERIMPOSITION. One image merged into another image.
VO: VOICE OVER. Usually used by a narrator of a scene. The character
doing the VO is usually not in the same location as the scene.
ZOOM: A camera focus upon something in the scene.