The Debt...

Written by: Roberto Rubio

Directed by: Aaron Sepulveda
President: Bryan Geesaman
Executive Head Chief Producer: Roberto Rubio
Narrated by: Aaron Sepulveda
Music by: Roberto Rubio
Created by: Nikolai

RWS 1301
Dr. Vierra
The University of Texas at El Paso
11/29/18
DRAFT #1
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1 TEXT:WHICH SAYS STUDENT LOAN SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS IN THE BACKGROUND
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DEBT.

IT ALSO SAYS “SO IF YOU’RE PAYING

FOR COLLEGE TUITON YOU’RE SCARED”

2 TRANSITIONS TO THE PICTURE OF AND SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC STILL PLAYS

0:12 UNFORTUNATE MAN.
.
WITH TEXT SAYING, “ENDING UP LIKE
THIS”

3 TEXT:SUGGESTING HOW TO TAKE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC STILL PLAYS IN THE

0:18 ACTION ”YOU CAN BEGIN BY NOT BACKGROUND
TAKING THE LOAN AND HELPING US
PROTEST AGAISNT TUITION”

4 TEXT: FOR EVERY $100 INCREASE IN Suspenseful music in background

0:24 TUITION THE ENROLMENT RATE DROPS
FROM AROUND .5-1% IN LOWER INCOME
COMMUNITIES AND ARE LESS LIKELY TO
GRADUATE Bryan Narrates

5 TEXT: THE UNITED STATES HAS THE Suspenseful music in background

0:30 HIGHEST TUITION PRICES IN THE WORLD
Bryan Narrates

6 TEXT: IT IS PROJECTED THAT IN 2100 Suspenseful music in background

0:36 THE TUITION PRICE WILL HAVE RAISED
3000% Bryan Narrates

7 TEXT: TUITION HAS RAISED 129% Suspenseful music in background

0:42 FROM 1988 TO 2018 AND ARE STILL
ON THE RISE Bryan Narrates

8 TEXT: JOIN US FOR A RALLY TO SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING

0:48 PROTEST THE RISING COSTS OF
TUITION AND FEES, WE NEED TO
INCREASE OUR INVOLVEMENT IN THESE
ISSUES IF WE WANT ANY HOPE OF Aaron will continue to narrate.
CHANGE.
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9 THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC STILL PLAYS IN THE
0:54 CONTRIBUTE YOU CAN SEND LETTERS, BACKGROUND
EMAILS AND OTHER FORMS OF
MESSAGES TO YOUR STATE Aaron will continue to narrate.
REPRESENTATIVES PUSHING THEM TO
MAKE A CHANGE.

10 FINALLY, IF YOU HAVE AN QUESTIONS SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC STILL PLAYS IN THE

1:00 ON HOW YOU CAN BE PART OF THE BACKGROUND
CHANGE PLEASE CONTACT US AND JOIN
THE FIGHT. Aaron will continue to narrate.

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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.
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)
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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.