Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: Short Term 12

Starting Monday, we begin our next installment of the Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis series: Short Term 12, the wonderful 2013 movie written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Brie Larson. It currently has a 99% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. If you haven’t seen this gem of a film, this weekend is the time to do it!

You may download the script here.

The schedule for the week’s discussion:

Monday: Scene-By-Scene Breakdown
Tuesday: Major Plot Points
Wednesday: Sequences
Thursday: Psychological Journey
Friday: Takeaways

The scene-by-scene breakdown for Short Term 12 was written up by Carolina Groppa.

I continually hammer on the importance of reading scripts. Now let me allow another screenwriter to make the point. Chris Sparling (Buried, ATM, The Atticus Institute) said this when I interviewed him and asked for the best single piece of advice to learn the craft of screenwriting:

Screenwriters need to read screenplays. You have to, have to, have to. It’s a free education and it’s arguably just as good as any other form of education you could get in this field. I can say, wholeheartedly, reading screenplays made me a better screenwriter. And like I said, it’s free. Few things of that much value are.

This series is your Call To Adventure! So do yourself a favor: Read the script Short Term 12 and join the discussion which begins Monday.

For links to all of the script analyses we have done on the blog, go here.

For the scene-by-scene script breakdowns, go here.

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