Script for a Short Feature Film (Be Afraid of Desires) (Creative Format)

Student: Berkova Anna

Supervisor: Yury Burtsev

Educational Programme: Media Communications (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2020

This research is intended to cover questions concerning creation of a script for a short feature film. The general purpose of this project to examine the theory and techniques of scriptwriting presented in works of professional authors, analyse a number of award-winning and critically acclaimed short films released both in Russia and all over the world, highlight common topics, tips and traits in these works and develop a set of scriptwriting tools which could be applied precisely to creation of a short film. These developed tools will be used for working-out a topic and synopsis for a future movie and directly for writing a script. The results of present work are intended to be easily adapted for practical purposes of young beginner-authors who want to start their career in filmmaking and become the first professional work in the authors career.

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