Film script conventions:

• Neologisms (SCI-FI, bring something new to audience)

• Panning shot

• Wide shot

• Close up

• POV of specific characters

• Instructions

• INT and EXT

• Action codes

• Visual codes

Establishment of context and setting

• Capitalisation for emphasis

• INT and EXT

• Context

• Audio codes e.g. brutal noise replaced with silence, sounds of native animals

• Visual codes e.g. blackness

• Repetition e.g. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (motif)

How are characters presented through the use of dialogue and description? What sense of personality does the audience gain? Register?

• ‘A growling roar of mean engines’, gnarled, shuddering stormtroopers

• Lor san tekka (rugged, kind) : description of character ‘you have to leave. Go!’ (selfless)

Capitalised

• CUT, PAN, WIDE SHOT- Technical codes stand out to directors and actors

• JAKKU VILLAGE- Emphasises change of setting

• LEATHER SACK- Props

Features

Rumbling, shuddering, flickering- SF of sensory, dynamic verb, fast moving action

Neologisms- quadnocs (sci fi)