iRubric: Short Film Script Rubric

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

The story lacks a clear beginning, middle, OR end.
The protagonist has a partly developed goal to achieve or a problem to solve.
The protagonist does not achieve his goal or solve his problem himself.
Prop is seen but not used to move plot.

The story contains a clear beginning, middle, or end, but not all three.
The protagonists has a goal to achieve or a problem to solve, but it is of no consequence.
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
The plot integrates the archetypes.

The story contains a clear beginning, middle, and end.
The protagonist has an important, life changing goal to achieve or problem to solve.
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.
The plot integrates the archetypes and partly succeeds in changing them.

The story contains a clear beginning, middle, and end.
The protagonist has an important, life changing goal to achieve or problem to solve.
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. The plot successfully weaves the story around the archetypes and changing them.

The story's locale is not discernible.
The story's time period is not discernible.
The story's setting is not described well.
The story does not contain multiple scenes.
None of the scenes are well described.
Scene and setting details are neither specific, concrete, nor particular.
Scene changes do not occur at the right time.

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.
The story contains a few scenes, but not enough.
Some of the scenes are clearly described.
Setting details are present but non-specific.
Scene changes are rough or not timed well.

The story has a specific location.
The story has a definite time period.
The story's setting is described, but only few of the details are relevant to the plot.
The story contains sufficient scenes.
Most of the scenes are clearly described.
Setting details are present but partly specific.
Scene changes are a little rough.

The story's local is clearly defined at the beginning.
The story's time period is clearly defined.
The story's setting is clearly described, most of the details are important to the plot.
The story contains an adequate amount of multiple scenes.
All of the story's scenes are well described.
Setting details are specific and concrete.
Most of the scene changes occur smoothly.

The story's local is well defined at the beginning.
The story's time period is well defined.
The story's setting is well described, details that are important to the plot.
The story contains an adequate amount of multiple scenes.
All of the story's scenes are well described.
Setting details are specific, concrete, and particular.
Scene changes occur smoothly and at the right time.

The story's point of view is not maintained.

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

The story's point of view is consistent.

The story's point of view is consistent and well maintained.

The story's point of view is consistently well maintained and easy to follow.

The script Slug Lines, Action Lines, and Dialogue headings are not correctly formatted.
Dialogue is not correctly formatted.

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

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