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Week 4 Assignment - Foreshadowing (OPTIONAL)

( Due: Sun, 24 Apr | Status: Not Completed )

Assignment – Foreshadowing and Looking at the Whole Script

Goals:

Foreshadowing and payoffs require that you look at the script as a whole. Objects and information that you have setup in the first part of the script affect and are paid off toward the climax. To make foreshadowing work, ask yourself if you have let a good amount of time elapse between the setup and the payoff? Have you hidden the setup or foreshadowing in plain sight, not being too obvious that it’s a setup? Foreshadowing is a great way to create unity and show mastery of storytelling technique, but in order to do this you must look at your script as a whole.

Instructions

1. First look at Act Three. What payoffs do you have? Make sure you have foreshadowed these payoffs in an earlier act. Then look at your earlier acts to see what you have set up – have you paid off these setups in Act III? Are your setups subtle enough so they do not give away the ending? Rewrite and adjust your foreshadowing setups with what you now have in Act Three.

2. Look at the script as a whole:

• What changes have you made and how do these changes impact the rest of you script.

• How can you now integrate these changes globally?

• What have you changed as a result of looking at foreshadowing, payoffs and looking at the script as a whole?

• What parts of the script do you want to rewrite or develop further and how will this impact your script as a whole.

3. Write a two-page (300 words minimum) paper on what changes you have made as a result of looking at foreshadowing and payoffs. Be specific about these changes and include examples from your script. Also tell me what changes you have made from looking at the script as a whole, and what you want to change or develop further in the months ahead.

4. Submit three scenes where you have made changes due to foreshadowing, payoffs, or looking at our script as a whole. Use revisions mode in Final Draft to show your changes.