- Dawry: No quiero practicar l'alambre alto!
- Kai: [sighs] Just one more hour.
Then you get a habanero treat.
- Dos delicias de habanero y un wasabi smoothie?
- Kai: [laughs] Okay, deal!
- Estoy mejorando! [Kai laughs]
- I knew you could do it!
- Shepherd: So what's going on here?
How did these actors know what to say?
Well, they had a script.
And that is what we are going to write today.
- A script is like a tool for an actor.
It tells us what to say and what to do.
Whether we're in a movie, a TV show, a podcast,
or even a video, like this one!
That's right, we have a script,
and it's like a special set of instructions.
- Because these are special instructions,
we use punctuation in special ways.
We use a colon to mean "says"
and parentheses to mean "does."
When you see a colon, you say what's after the colon.
When you see a parentheses, you do what's in the parentheses,
but you don't say it out loud.
Because it's a special form,
you don't need to use quotation marks.
The colon is enough to let the actor know what to say.
- So the play that we just saw
looked a little something like this.
- Dawry: No quiero practicar l'alambre alto!
- Kai: [sighs] Just one more hour.
Then you get a habanero treat.
- Dos delicias de habanero y un wasabi smoothie ?
- [laughs] Okay, deal!
- Estoy mejorando! [Kai laughs]
- I knew you could do it!
- So how do we come up with an idea
for a script in the first place?
Well, remember to brainstorm.
Once we have our character, our plot, and our setting,
then we're all set to write a story.
Let's improvise a story together
and we'll write it down as we go along, yeah?
Do I have any volunteers?
Excellent, okay.
So the first thing that we are going to look for
is two characters.
We need two characters.
Anila, one character please.
- Um...Peppa Pig. - Shepherd: Peppa Pig.
Can I make her spicy? - Anila: Yes.
- Can I make her Pepper Pig? - Anila: Pepper Pig.
- Pepper Pig, okay.
And who's the second character?
- Jay: Asmadeus. - Who's that?
- A poisonous snake.
- A poisonous snake, excellent, excellent.
All right, here's my next question.
Where are they?
- Finnegan: Arches National Park.
- Utah, nice!
Excellent, okay.
So we've got Pepper Pig, we've got Asmadeus.
They are at Arches National Park.
Asmadeus is a really, really long name.
But since we only have two characters
and both of the characters start with two different letters,
we can simplify this for ourselves.
Watch.
We're gonna write an "A."
Write an "A." - Great.
- Boom.
And then, what comes next when we wanna say
that our character is saying something?
Gigi, what is it?
- The colon? - Shepherd: Yes, it is!
- Oh, yeah! - Shepherd: Boom!
The colon looks like this, two dots.
- Jay: Can I say what I want him to say?
- You have a line for Asmadeus? - I will kill you!
- Shepherd: Excellent! - Kai: Wow, right off the bat!
- Right off the bat.
It sounds like something he would say.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm not gonna lie.
Now, here's my question.
Is Asmadeus doing something with his body when he says that?
- Yes. - Yes.
- Yes, okay.
What is he doing with his body?
- He's, like, shaking his tail and making hissing sounds,
and, like, creeping him out. - Group: Ooh!
- Shepherd: Okay, and since that is an action,
what do we put there?
Yes? - Parentheses.
- Parentheses! - Yes!
- Boom, one there, and then shaking his tail.
Yes, Anila, what's Pepper Pig say?
- [yawns] I'm so hungry.
- Shepherd: Oh, I'm so hungry, and is she doing that too?
- And she's gonna go to sleep after when she's done eating.
- Sheperd: Oh, okay.
So, "I'm so hungry," and then in what?
- Group: In parentheses!
- Nice, in parentheses, should we put sleepy?
Does that make sense, 'cause she's gonna go to bed?
Should we put sleepy?
What does Asmadeus say when he sees Pepper Pig?
Yes?
- I'm gonna eat your toes. [group exclaims]
- Shepherd: I'm gonna eat your toes!
- Kai: Nasty!
- Not if I eat yours first. - Shepherd: Ooh!
[Kai laughs] Yes!
- I don't have toes.
Sick burn. - Shepherd: Sick,
could it be like, "Om nom nom nom?"
- Kai: Yes! - Shepherd: Sick burn?
- Yes, and, like, sassy.
- Shepherd: Like sassy, like a little snake.
Finnegan, what else?
- And maybe Asmadeus could chomp, like, eat Pepper Pig?
- And then, and then? - Jay: The end!
- Pepper on the Pig.
- Pepper, I will kill you!
- [yawns] I'm so hungry! [laughter]
- I'm gonna eat your toes.
- Not if I eat yours first!
- I don't have toes.
Sssick burn!
[gasps] [laughter]
- Shepherd: The end!
[applause and cheers]
- Scriptwriting is the ultimate way
to support each other's ideas!
You can support each other by writing a script together,
by acting out the script together,
or you can have your friends support your ideas
by having them act out your script.
And remember, if you get stuck, just go back to the brainstorm.
Happy writing!