FILM: Scripting

A script is one of the most important things used when creating the film. A script allows everyone to see a detailed written draft of what will be appearing on the screen and it allows the director's vision of the film and the way the characters will be portrayed to begin to take shape.

When writing our script we decided that we wanted to keep dialogue to a minimum and that we wanted to focus more upon actions and camera shots to tell the story. This can been seen from our script which focuses mainly around stage directions and editing.

We wrote out a basic script which we began to build upon adding in more stage directions to make it more detailed and spefic to how we wanted the scenes to play out.

When deciding upon what music we wanted to use as diegetic background sound in the film. We originally thought that Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol would be a good idea as it will link into the romance and we knew there was a build up in the song that will link into the increased pace.

After further thought we saw that the song was too slow and didn't emphasis the increase suspense and pace of the action. We started to think again about which band and song we could use.

We thought we could use Juicebox - The Strokes as we knew there was an increased pace and excitement in the song.

We then thought this song was too heavy and didn't emphasis any of the romance in the film. Then we settled on our final song Old Habits Die Hard - Ten Second Epic

We thought it had just the right level of speed and created just enough tension to work with our film.

For our opening credits we wanted to have another song running through it. This song we wanted to be fast paced but still enjoyable to begin to set the scene of what kind of film this will be. We found the song Friday I'm In Love - The Cure and found it fit our ideas perfectly

This song is happy and the lyrics suggest that the film will be one about romance. It gives the auidence a general idea into what the film is about.