Script Analysis: “Eighth Grade” — Part 6: Takeaways

Read the script for the hit movie which won the Writers Guild of America Best Original Screenplay Award.

Reading scripts. Absolutely critical to learn the craft of screenwriting. The focus of this Go Into The Story series is a deep structural and thematic analysis of each script we read. Our daily schedule:

Monday: Scene-By-Scene Breakdown
Tuesday: Plot
Wednesday: Characters
Thursday: Themes
Friday: Dialogue
Saturday: Takeaways

Today: Takeaways.

This week, we have been reading, analyzing, and discussing the script and movie Eighth Grade. In some ways, today’s exercise is the whole point of the series: What did you take away from the experience of reading and analyzing the script?

Written by Bo Burnham.

IMDb plot summary: An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.

You may download a PDF of the script here.

Major kudos to Denise Garcia for doing this week’s scene-by-scene breakdown.

For Part 1, to read the Scene-By-Scene Breakdown discussion, go here.

For Part 2, to read the Major Plot Points discussion, go here.

For Part 3, to read Characters discussion, go here.

For Part 4, to read the Themes discussion, go here.

For Part 5, to read the Dialogue discussion, go here.

For more movie scene-by-scene breakdowns, go here.

For the Go Into The Story Script Read and Analysis series archives, go here.

I hope to see you in the RESPONSE section about this week’s script: Eighth Grade.