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Script Rubric 
Evaluates how well students of Broadcast Production class have completed the Short Film Script writing assignment.
Rubric Code: QX459CW
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Subject: English  
Type: Writing  
Grade Levels: 9-12

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Plot (12 points)

Comments:

Poor

The story lacks a clear beginning, middle, and end.<BR>
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The protagonist lacks a goal to achieve or a problem to solve.<BR>
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The protagonist does not achieve his goal or solve his problem himself.
Prop is seen but not used to move plot
Fair

The story contains a clear beginning, middle, or end, but not all three.<BR>
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The protagonists has a goal to achieve or a problem to solve, but it is of no consequence.<BR>
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The protagonist has a part in achieving his goal or solving his problem, but it is only a minor part or it feels contrived.
Prop is clearly used by characters and but not clearly integrated well into plot
Excellent

The story contains a clear beginning, middle, and end.<BR>
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The protagonist has an important, life changing goal to achieve or problem to solve.<BR>
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The protagonist achieves his goal or solves his problem by himself in a realistic, natural way.
Prop is use by characters and integrated well into the plot
Characters (12 points)

Comments:

Poor

The protagonist is not believable or sympathetic.<BR>
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The protagonist does not have any distinguishing characteristics.<BR>
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There is no definite antagonist.
Fair

The protagonist is either believable or sympathetic, but not both.<BR>
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The protagonist is only mildly distinguishable.<BR>
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There is an antagonist, but he is not a strong opponent.
Excellent

The protagonist is both believable and sympathetic.<BR>
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The protagonist has at least one distinguishable characteristic.<BR>
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The antagonist is a strong opponent.
Scenes and Settings (12 points)

Comments:

Poor

The story's local is not discernible.<BR>
The story's time period is not discernible.<BR>
The story's setting is not described well.<BR>
The story does not contain multiple scenes.<BR>
None of the scenes are well described.<BR>
Scene and setting details are neither specific, concrete, nor particular.
Scene changes do not occur at the right time.
Film technique is not executed properly and not integrated will into the scen
Fair

The story has a specific location, but it is not well defined.
The story has a definite time period, not well defined.
The story's setting is described, but the details are not relevant to the plot.<BR>
The story contains a few scenes, but not enough.<BR>
Some of the scenes are well described.<BR>
Setting details are present but non-specific.<BR>
Scene changes are rough or not timed well.
Film technique is executed but missing co
Excellent

The story's local is well defined at the beginning.
The story's time period is well defined.<BR>
The story's setting is well described, details that are important to the plot.
The story contains an adequate amount of multiple scenes.<BR>
All of the story's scenes are well described.<BR>
Setting details are specific, concrete, and particular.<BR>
Scene changes occur smoothly and at the right time.
Film technique is well execute
Dialogue (12 points)

Comments:

Poor

Dialogue does not sound natural or realistic.<BR>
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Dialogue is not individual to each character.<BR>
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Dialogue is often used for exposition.
Line of dialogue is/is not used and not integrated well into the plot/scene.
Fair

Dialogue sounds either unnatural or unrealistic.<BR>
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Dialogue is mildly individual to each character.<BR>
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Dialogue is sometimes used for exposition.
Line of dialogue is used and but not smoothly integrated into the plot/scene.
Excellent

Dialogue sounds natural and realistic.<BR>
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Dialogue is individual to each character.<BR>
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Dialogue is never used for exposition.
Line of dialogue is used and integrated well into the plot/scene.
Point of View (12 points)

Comments:

Poor

The story's point of view is not maintained.
Fair

The story's point of view is consistent, but hard to follow.
Excellent

The story's point of view is consistently well maintained and easy to follow.
Story Structure (12 points)

Comments:

Poor

Neither the characters nor the conflict are well introduced in Act One.<BR>
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The story does not capture or keep the attention of the audience.
Fair

The characters and/or the conflict are introduced in Act One, but not both or only vaguely.<BR>
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The story captures but does not keep the attention of the audience.
Excellent

The characters and the conflict are well introduced.<BR>
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The story captures and keeps the attention of the audience.
Structure (12 points)

Comments:

Poor

The script Slug Lines, Action Lines, and Dialogue headings are not correctly formatted.<BR>
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Dialogue is not correctly formatted.
Fair

Some script headings (Slug Lines, Action Lines, Dialogue headings) are correctly formatted, but not all of them.<BR>
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Some character dialogue is correctly formatted, but not all of it.
Excellent

The script headings (Slug Lines, Action Lines, Dialogue headings) are correctly formatted.<BR>
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Character dialogue is correctly formatted.



Keywords:
  • play; writing; script; film; video; production

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