Why Regulate?

LAFTAS: Script

The first draft of our script was very basic, we wanted to get the general order of the scene down at first. As we only had one line of dialogue, “surprise”, in our whole scene, we didn’t realise at first how short our script was. So, we decided as our film is more visual than full of dialogue, that we needed to add to the stage directions and descriptions in our script to make them more detailed so that our actors understood what we saw our film looking like. We improved our first draft by doing so and also added some more features that we thought about and created a second draft:Our second draft was a lot more descriptive and we felt that it would be much clearer to our actors to see our vision than it would have been if they were given our first draft. However, then as we completed more planning, including our storyboards, we started to think more about how our scene would edit togethe. Therefore, we incorporated this into our script by adding certain transitions and when our opening titles would be seen. We felt that we didn’t need to add much more to our script as there was little dialogue, but extending our directions for the purpose of our actors was a good idea.