My grade just recently went to a camp arranged by the school called Peace Camp, and our Social Studies teacher gave each group a video project to answer the questions she gave us. My group asked me to make the script; tell me what you think about this first draft.
P.S. I took out all of the full names for their owners' safety.
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Social Studies Video Project
[black screen]
[after a few seconds, the words slowly appear then fade out for the next words:
PRESENTING
A GROUP 5 FILM
FOR SOCIAL STUDIES
[the title suddenly flies in very fast, Music 1 starts to play]
PEACE CAMP: A COMPLETE REFLECTION
[black screen w/ title slides to left, brings in actual video, showing a blank wall]
Eliana: [walks by quickly, slaps onto the wall a piece of paper with tape on it] [goes off-screen]
Paper: STARRING (name), (name), etc.
[screen slides up, brings in next shot of an open door leading into the classroom]
Rovi: [runs on-screen and into the classroom, slamming door shut to reveal another piece of paper taped to it]
Paper: FOR A PROJECT BY (teacher’s name) OF SOCIAL STUDIES
[screen slides to the right, brings in next shot of the floor in the hallway, with stroller bags being pulled by people going by]
[all of the stroller bags leave, revealing a dirty, torn piece of paper on the floor]
Paper: WITH A MUSIC VIDEO ON PEACE CAMP
[Music 1 stops, screen slides down, brings in music video, which plays]
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[after the music video, screen fades to shot of a small, dark space, only three lines of light in front]
[Mia is seen coming, opens the locker door- the small dark spaces turns out to be the inside of a locker]
Mia: [stares into the camera before bringing up a sign]
Sign: THE QUESTIONS
[cut to front of Michelle sitting in her desk writing on test paper]
Michelle: [looks up, brings test paper up to show something written on the back]
Paper: HOW HAS PEACE CAMP CHANGED YOU?
[very fast shot of the entire group together, talking and laughing]
[cut to Timmy sitting in the teacher’s desk, hands together]
Timmy: [says the answer]
[cut to Liel sitting with her legs in the gym pool, with pants rolled up]
[illustration board in the water slowly floats to her, bumps her in the legs]
Liel: [sees board, picks it up to show to the audience]
Sign: WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM PEACE CAMP?
[very fast shot, like last time, except the entire group is sitting in the chairs looking down, they suddenly look up]
[cut to Kirstie sitting Indian-style in front of the lockers]
Kirstie: [says the answer]
[cut to the whole group lying down on the grass forming a circle with their heads, they all take pieces of paper off-screen and holding them up together to form a rectangle, on the paper is the last question broken up]
Pieces of paper: WHAT’S NEXT?
Entire group: [take papers down] [say the answer together]
[Music 2 starts to play, the group slowly begins to smile, then suddenly get off the ground to show just the grass]
Nina: [runs back in with piece of paper, lays it on the ground, then runs off-screen again]
Paper: THE END
[close-up of paper]
[credits roll]
Group: [during the credits, each member comes at different times to fix the paper, or move it]
[at the end, Bea walks in to take it away, screen fades to black]
