Graduation rates

Written by Lizbeth Gallegos

Koral Gardea
Abraham Apodaca
Jose Escbedo

RWS 1301
Paul Vierra
The University of Texas at El Paso
11/29/2018
FINAL
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SHOT READING/TEXT IMAGES/VIDEO

1 WHAT IS THE AUDIENCE READING? WHAT IS THE AUDIENCE SEEING?
0:06
Graduation Rates is the Picture of diverse people
percentage of Students
who graduate within the
first 6 years of
education

2 Accordin to Susan Choy Picture of diverse students

0:12 (2002) colleges today
are very diverse
‘minorities’ take up a
considerable percentage
of a college population

3 In addition, Choy states Blank black screen

0:18 that every ethnicity has
its own percentage of
graduation rates

4 UTEP is a perfect Blank black screen

0:24 example of this…

5 No text Chart of UTEP’s ethnicity

0:27 percentages

6 77.4% of those students Blank black screen

0:32 being Latinos and 7%
being international
students

7 Mein (2018) states that Video Clip of UTEP students

0:37 50% of Latino families walking in campus
do not make more than
25,000 a year

8 Minorities on average Blank black screen with white

0:40 have a lower income and text
cannot afford to attend
school

9 BECAUSE OF THIS GRADUATION Blank black screen with white

0:44 RATES OF UNIVERSITIES LIKE text
UTEP ARE SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER
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SHOT READING/TEXT IMAGES/VIDEO

10 We encourage all Black blank screen with white
0:49 students to apply for text
financial aid and
scholarships

11 FINANCIAL AID OFFICE 204 MIKE Picture OF Mike Loya building

0:55 LOYA, SCHOLARSHIP OFFICE MIKE
LOYA 202

12 CREDITS
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13 END CREDITS
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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.
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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)
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.