PAKISTAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, JEDDAH – English Section

Academic Year Subject Name Section Date

2021– 2022 English Y7- 24-1-2022

Second Term Board Notes

Analysing the presentation of plays

Film scripts:

Film scripts contain descriptions of where something is happening and how

characters are moving. As such, they often contain prepositions of location and
direction, such as in, on, at and by. Film scripts contain a lot of information
about scenery and action.

Differences between film script and play script:

Features of a film script:

• Less dialogue
• More detailed descriptions of locations, time, setting and action
• The events happen chronologically
• Wide range of settings
• More description than speech
• Written in present tense

Features of a play script:

• More dialogue
• Fewer setting and stage directions
• Written in present tense
 Sample:
[It is night time in Surrey, we see an owl on the street sign "PRIVET DRIVE" and the
camera pans to the street with very identical looking brown bricked houses. The owl
flies away and an elderly man with crimson robes and a long silvery white beard
named Albus Dumbledore walks out of a forest near the street, past a tabby cat
standing next to what looks like a shed. He takes out his deluminator and activates it.
Dumbledore zaps all the light out of the lampposts. He puts away the device and a
cat meows. Dumbledore looks down at the cat.]

Dumbledore: I should have known that you would be here...Professor McGonagall.

[The cat silently looks at him, and the camera turns towards a wall. The cat's shadow
turns into a woman with a tall hat. There are footsteps and Minerva McGonagall is
revealed.]

McGonagall: Good evening, Professor Dumbledore. Are the rumours true, Albus?

Dumbledore: I'm afraid so, Professor. The good, and the bad

McGonagall: And the boy?

Dumbledore: Hagrid is bringing him.

McGonagall: Do you think it is wise to trust Hagrid with something as important as

this?

Dumbledore: Ah, Professor, I would trust Hagrid with my life.

[There is a motor sound, and the two professors look up to see a flying motorcycle
coming down from the air. It skids on the street and halts. A large man with shoulder
length black hair and beard named Rubeus Hagrid takes off his goggles.]

Hagrid: Professor Dumbledore, Sir. Professor McGonagall.

Dumbledore: No problems, I trust, Hagrid?

Hagrid: No, sir. Little tyke fell asleep just as we were flying over Bristol. Heh. Try not
to wake him. There you go.

[Hagrid hands a baby wrapped in a bundle over to Dumbledore.]

McGonagall: Albus, do you really think it's safe, leaving him with these people? I've
watched them all day. They're the worst sort of Muggles imaginable. They really
are...

Dumbledore: The only family he has.

[They stop outside a house which is 4 Privet Drive.]