Script Analysis Report

Full day students can earn rewards by writing down what they learned during workshops.  Here's what Sam and Maddie had to say about Script Analysis with Jacqueline Vuki.

When you exploit something over and over, especially in a story, you learn something new every time.  That's usually because very scene has the plot chart in the over-arching story.  When you zoom in on a scene in the script, you spot a small fragment of conflict, character emotions, information, and motivation you may not have grasped in your first read-through.  That's why script analysis is important.

Today's workshop was taught by our wonderful director JJ. This will be her third year directing EYT. She taught a workshop about script breakdown and character analysis. We started we by dissecting our scripts and learning about the key points of a script. These key steps are the introduction, rising action, climax, falling action and the denouement . We were also told some questions to ask when analyzing our scripts like where does it take place, when does it take place vs when it was written, what is it about and who are the antagonist/protagonist. We discussed the message of our show, the problems and solutions, outcomes and purposes we finish by having volunteers share their character analysis homework.

Savvy adds:
I learned that it is very important to know more about my character than a name.  It is good to know how they act and not just what to say.  This lesson taught me a lot about becoming a character.

Max O says, "Script analysis was very good.  I learned a lot about my character and about the play."