Mental Health PSA

Written by: Jake Kopinski

Josue Melendez

RWS 1301
Dr. Vierra
The University of Texas at El Paso
11-29-18
DRAFT #1
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1 PICTURE OF THE CENTENIAL PLAZA AT MUSIC UNDER
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UTEP

Text: Every fall, new students enroll

at UTEP.

2 STUDENTS LAUGHING AND HAVING FUN MUSIC CONTINUES

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Text: For some, college will be the
time of their lives.

3 BLACK SCREEN MUSIC CONTINUES

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Text: But this is not the case for
everyone...

4 STUDENT LOOKING FRUSTRATED MUSIC CONTINUES

0:24 READING FROM COMPUTER

Text: College is a breeding ground

for mental health issues.

5 BEER NEXT TO BOOK MUSIC CONTINUES

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Text: Many will develop alcoholic
tendencies.

6 BLACK SCREEN MUSIC CONTINUES

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Text: 1/5 of students suffer from
Alcohol Use Disorder.

7 EMPTY CANS OF BEER MUSIC CONTINUES

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Text: But alcoholism is not the only
problem.

8 BLACK SCREEN MUSIC CONTINUES

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Text: 10% of college students
develop depression due to stress.

9 MUSIC CONTINUES
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Text: Suicide is the second most
common reasons of deaths among
college students

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Text: Sometimes, students take
actions that have no turning back

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Film Nomenclature
Here are some scriptwriting terms you can use. You need to use at least one term in every
scene.

ANGLE: Directs the camera to focus on a person or thing.

AD LIB: Instructs actors to make up and fill in dialogue in the scene.
CUT TO: To go from one scene, or element in a scene, to another very quickly.
DISSOLVE: A film editing technique where one scene "melts" or fades into another scene.
ESTABLISHING SHOT: Use to be used to give an overall perspective of a scene.
EXT. Short for exterior, or outside.
FADE IN: This is the start of the screenplay.
FADE OUT: This is the end.
Fg: Stands for Foreground. Used to place an object or person in front of the scene.
FREEZE FRAME: The image freezes on the screen and becomes a still shot.
INT.: Short for interior, or indoors.
INTERCUT: To go back and forth between to locations, scenes, or elements in a scene.
INSERT: An item that is inserted into the camera view. Usually a note, or picture is inserted so
the audience can either read what is on the note, or see the picture.
Master scene heading: Begins each new scene. It consists of three parts: The LOCATION,
PLACE, and TIME of the scene. For example:
* EXT. PLAYGROUND - NIGHT or
* INT. BEDROOM - DAY
MONTAGE or SERIES OF SHOTS: A number of different scenes shown one after the other.
Used to show a number of events passing in a short period of time.
OS or OC: OFF SCREEN or OFF CAMERA. A character talks, or something happens out of
view of the camera.
OVER THE SHOULDER: A camera shot over the shoulder of a character.
PAN: A camera shot that pivots up and down, or side to side.
PLOT POINT: A turning point, or transition in the screenplay that propels the screenplay forward.
POV: POINT OF VIEW. The perspective view of one character as they look at another character
or thing in the scene.
REVERSE SHOT: When two characters are talking to each other and the camera shifts for one
character to the other.
SLOW MOTION: Self-explanatory.
SPLIT SCREEN: The location of the scene is divided in to two, or more sections.
SUBLIM: A shot lasting less than a second. (The brief flashbacks scenes usually done when a
character is dying and their live flash before their eyes)
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SUPER: A SUPERIMPOSITION. One image merged into another image.

VO: VOICE OVER. Usually used by a narrator of a scene. The character doing the VO is usually
not in the same location as the scene.
ZOOM: A camera focus upon something in the scene.