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> Imagine if we forced children to experience Star Wars as a screenplay, read aloud in class? It’s ridiculous. Wait, is that ridiculous? I honestly think it's
by time_to_smile 4y ago
> Imagine if we forced children to experience Star Wars as a screenplay, read aloud in class? It’s ridiculous.
Wait, is that ridiculous? I honestly think it's beneficial to let young students get a better sense of how all the media they consume is actually created. Seeing how a screen play differs from a film, discussing how subtle changes in reading a line might influence the interpretation of a scene, understanding the nature of improvisation and just knowing where movies come from sounds like it would be both very interesting and very educational.
The equivalent for video games would be understanding how a PC works and walking through some of the actual code that goes into making a game, maybe building a simple mod. I imagine that would also be a useful class and enjoyed by quite a few HS students.
- dwringer 4y agoI agree there's nothing ridiculous about reading lines from Star Wars in class. I never had that in class but I remember English classes where we'd read parts of the script of other TV shows (an episode of Party of Five, I seem to recall) and I know some Star Trek episodes were used in that way even decades ago.
- themadturk 4y agoWhen I was in my senior year at university (1978) I took a class in dramatic structure, and one of my classmates had somehow gotten hold of a copy of the Star Wars (what we now call A New Hope) shooting script. The instructor (head of the drama department) immediately latched onto it as an example of a screenplay, while all the other reading was plays. George Lucas may not be a great writer, but the Hero's Journey structure of the story made a great study for the class.