Planning: Script

    Now that I have finished the project proposal for the movie opening, a rough storyboard, and the titles, I decided that the next step should be to write the script. This rough draft of the script takes into account most of the parts of the storyboard. I may need to revise as the ideas mature and I collaborate and revise with my group mates; however, for now, I am fairly content with how the process went for creating this script.

Rough first draft of the script:

 

When writing this script, I had to take into account how long each of the scenes was going to take to keep it under two minutes. In the original storyboard for this movie opening, I was planning on having all of the things in the clip occur while also adding another scene, which had a male character walking to his car and turning on the radio, which was playing the case out loud. I believed that would have taken too much time and would not have made the cut for under two minutes.

To compensate for this, I shifted around the script to include Derek having a daughter and having her wrongfully be set up for a crime that she didn't commit. By setting up Lisa as the main protagonist of the movie, this ensures that the story doesn't feel like a short film and more feels like a movie opening, which it is supposed to be.

I feel that while this is a rough draft and may have some changes occur to it, the rough draft does accomplish what I want, and it checks off the boxes of what my group and I envisioned when thinking of this story.

The next step in the planning process would be for my group and me to first revise and edit the prop list to better fit the changes made in the movie opening. Once that his been completed, my group and I will start to acquire the set pieces, as well as pick out the locations for filming each of these scenes. While I have a rough Idea in my head, it would be better to set in stone these locations for future reference.