Hsc Drama: Individual Project Script Writing

Mastering the HSC Drama Individual Project (IP): Scriptwriting

Your logbook should document:

• Initial Brainstorming: Mind maps and initial ideas.
• Research: Notes on styles, practitioners, or historical contexts relevant to your script.
• Drafting & Workshopping: This is crucial. You must show evidence that you have changed the script. Markers want to see you killing your "darlings"—cuting scenes that don't work, tightening dialogue, and reshaping the arc based on readings or peer feedback.

But Mr. Lantham’s words echoed: write what you’re afraid to know. hsc drama individual project script writing

• For Structure: Read The Whale by Samuel D. Hunter (One set, high stakes).
• For Theatricality: Read The Effect by Lucy Prebble (clinical vs. emotional).
• For High School Voice: Read The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe (Ensemble of soccer players; fragmented, realistic dialogue).
• For Minimalism: Read Blackbird by David Harrower (Two-handers, high tension).