Screenplays



Assignment sheet from 2012:



== It may be comedic or dramatic, but it involve some sort of __conflict__, __irony__, and __dramatic arc__. Let one of the characters have a secret that he or she is either trying to hide or needs to reveal. Let the audience be in on the secret early on in the scene. ==


 * SOME IDEAS FOR SCENES:**

- 2 girlfriends trying on clothes in side-by-side dressing rooms talking about prom or boyfriends -- one knows something the other doesn't

- 2 guy friends driving to a party and are lost -- the driver always makes the decisions about where to go and has messed up; the passenger wanted to go to a concert instead and is angry

- 2 siblings home alone doing homework or watching a movie -- one knows a secret about Mom or Dad and wants to keep it from the younger sibling, but the younger sibling suspects something is up (divorce or illness or lost a job or is cheating....)

- 2 fast-food workers on break scheming to get another worker fired or to get a friend hired

- a couple on a train going to visit the parents of one of them whom the other has not yet met -- one of them has a secret about his/her family that he or she does not want to come up in front of the parents (exactly who knows what could vary)


 * NOTE: Darlene Cates, the actress who plays Mrs. Grape, made the news recently when she lost 250 pounds and told reporters she'd like to get back into acting: **

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/eating-gilbert-grape-mom-drops-250-pounds-hopes-160116909.html