{"id":5159,"date":"2020-06-09T12:45:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T11:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.wbstudiotour.co.uk\/?page_id=5159"},"modified":"2020-12-01T12:38:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T12:38:31","slug":"screenplay-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stage.wbstudiotour.co.uk\/fr\/resources\/screenplay-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Screenplay Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a style=\"font-family: 'Montserrat',sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em;\" href=\"\/at-home\/\"><span style=\"vertical-align: middle; font-size: 0.8em;\">\u25c0\ufe0e<\/span> Back to &#8216;Studio Tour At Home&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Story ideas<\/b> can come from anywhere. The idea of a <b>boy going to wizarding school<\/b> came to J.K. Rowling whilst she was on a four-hour train journey between Manchester and London. She didn\u2019t even have a pen to write her ideas down at the time, so she kept the ideas in her head and wrote them down as soon as she could that evening. This is how her first book <b><em>Harry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone<\/em><\/b> was born!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4777\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.wbstudiotour.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/professor-umbridge-quill-1024x513.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Umbridge's desk and quill\" width=\"1024\" height=\"513\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before a book can be made into a film, a <b>screenplay<\/b> needs to be written. The screenwriter for Harry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone was Steve Kloves and he worked closely with J.K. Rowling to take the story ideas, themes and characters and adapt them for the big screen. You can see an example of a screenplay on the activity sheet below, notice that it is written in a font called courier new \u2013 this is the standard font for screenplays.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4673\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.wbstudiotour.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/privet-drive-1024x513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"513\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are <b>four key areas<\/b> that screenwriters will take into consideration when they are creating their stories:<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/stage.wbstudiotour.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/wbstl\/images\/wysiwyg-li-icon.svg'); background-position: left 28px; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-bottom: 1px solid #d4d4d4; padding: 16px 20px 20px 40px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px;\">Main character<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/stage.wbstudiotour.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/wbstl\/images\/wysiwyg-li-icon.svg'); background-position: left 28px; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-bottom: 1px solid #d4d4d4; padding: 16px 20px 20px 40px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px;\">Setting<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/stage.wbstudiotour.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/wbstl\/images\/wysiwyg-li-icon.svg'); background-position: left 28px; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-bottom: 1px solid #d4d4d4; padding: 16px 20px 20px 40px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px;\">Time Period<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/stage.wbstudiotour.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/wbstl\/images\/wysiwyg-li-icon.svg'); background-position: left 28px; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-bottom: 1px solid #d4d4d4; padding: 16px 20px 20px 40px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px;\">Genre<\/p>\n<p><b>Download our activity sheet<\/b> to create your own story cubes, these can help give you ideas for stories. Write down your ideas to create a story, then adapt to produce your own screenplay.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><a class=\"wbstl-btn blue\" style=\"margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;\" href=\"https:\/\/stage.wbstudiotour.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/at-home-screenplay-activity-sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" type=\"application\/pdf\">Download the activity sheet (PDF)<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cross-sell-box-wrapper\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"cross-sell-box\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stage.wbstudiotour.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/at-home-screenplay-activity-sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" type=\"application\/pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4684\" style=\"border: 1px solid #005789;\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.wbstudiotour.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/at-home-screenplay-activity-sheet-thumbnail-page-1.jpg\" alt=\"Screenplay activity sheet page 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cross-sell-box\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stage.wbstudiotour.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/at-home-screenplay-activity-sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" type=\"application\/pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4685\" style=\"border: 1px solid #005789;\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.wbstudiotour.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/at-home-screenplay-activity-sheet-thumbnail-page-2.jpg\" alt=\"Screenplay activity sheet page 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u25c0\ufe0e Back to &#8216;Studio Tour At Home&#8217; Story ideas can come from anywhere. 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