Free Screenplays this week in UK

aruna · Feb 12, 2008

... if you buy the Times. They are bound as books and very nice. Yesterday it was Elizabeth (I think!) today Shakespeare in Love, tomorrow Billy Elliot, then The Hours and Trainspotting. But you have to buy The Times at W H Smiths.
Just sayin'.
The Times also has a free scriptwriting course at the end of this month, details in your friendly newspaper.

dpaterso · Feb 12, 2008

Thanks aruna, I might collect a couple just so I can leave them lying around on the coffee table and impress visitors by pretending I'm a screenwriter.

-Derek

aruna · Feb 12, 2008

Good! And of course I meant Scripts, not Screenplays in the title. What's the difference anyway?

aruna · Feb 13, 2008

aruna said:
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~~The Times also has a free scriptwriting course at the end of this month, details in your friendly newspaper~~.

Wrong info. It's a Film School event in London on Feb. 21st with John Mddden, director of Shakespeare in Love.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/Film_School/

Plot Device · Feb 13, 2008

aruna said:
Good! And of course I meant Scripts, not Screenplays in the title. What's the difference anyway?

Um ... good question!

I think the correct understanding is this (but I could be wrong):

SCRIPTS is the umbrella word for:
-- stage
-- radio
-- film
-- TV
-- computer games
(and I believe the scripts for all commercials, industrials, and documentaries are blanketly called just plain old "scripts" or else "production scripts" or maybe even "shooting scripts")

STAGE PLAY
-- only for the stage

RADIO PLAY
-- only for radio

SCREENPLAY
-- usually for film
-- sometimes for TV

TELEPLAY
-- only for TV

... and I don't believe they've yet come up with a cool word exclusively for video game scripts.

Plot Device · Feb 13, 2008

And even comic books have scripts to them (I wrote a comic script once). I think THOSE are simply called "comic scripts" or "graphic novel scripts."

Free Screenplays this week in UK

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