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1) Discuss what your preliminary exercise will involve – make notes on location, sequence of events, who will act etc.

Belle, Jenny

at school in classroom

phone call, walk to door, in class, sit, talk, kill

2) Write a short script for the preliminary exercise. Remember, scripts outline movement and shots as well as dialogue. The BBC Writer's Room is a brilliant resource for tips and examples of TV scriptwriting. Here's a genuine TV script example from Luther to check you are formatting your script correctly.

                                                             Belle (on phone)

Hello

yes

Give a dog a bone.

(Int. classroom)

                                                                               Belle

Trust me, this is a real bad guy.

                                                                              Jenny 

What do you want me to do about it?

                                                                             Belle

KILL HIM.

                                                                             Jenny

Say no more.

3) Write a shot list of every possible shot (and a few extra) you will need for this preliminary exercise. An example shot list is here.

medium close up of phone call

long shot of walking

close up on handle

medium long shot of door opening

close up of jenny turning

over the shoulder of walking to Jenny

close up on slam 

over the shoulder talking

medium of Jenny shooting

Long shot of dog body