Script Development (Draft 2)
- 1. Script Development SecondVersion TEODORA RADOVANOVIC A2 MEDIA STUDIES
- 2. - After examining the options of title ideas for my short film, which varied in both significance of their meanings and their length, I primarily decided to chose the title Involuntary Servitude in which the main character’s mental instability has mastered to control him and leave him restrained, helpless and enslaved. However, since my aim with this project is to reach a broader audience I have chosen a short yet poignant title of Impact due to two reasons. Firstly, I have chosen it because the film’s message revolves around a daily yet unspoken topic of inner regret and unrest which to a certain level of impact each individual endures. Secondly, in relation to the storyline, I have coincided its meaning to demonstrate the crash or impact of an airplane which corresponds with also its impact it has made on all the victims. Therefore, this bold yet effective title encompasses all the theme and symbolisms which represent this project.
- 3. - In order to emphasize the main character’s gloominess I have decided to add certain images such empty gazes, blank facial expressions and long and tiresome trudging. Through these inaudible snippets and representations of his bleak and lifeless surroundings the character is better introduced to the audience I have decided to change the title of the newspaper title to: PLANE CRASH STILL INVESTIGATED, NO ONETO BLAMEYET, since it demonstrates that the event has happened recently adding to its grand influence upon the main character particularly since his guilt which he is aware of has not yet been revealed, adding to the emphasis of his emotional struggle to confront his undoing officially. By relating to specific instructions of trying to get in touch with the pilot on the plane and indicating that all of the group of people have labels indicating that they are victims demonstrates a notion of further clarification which has been added in order to make the film more coherent.
- 4. - In order to make the structure of the storyline more coherent to the reader(s) of the script, including both cast and crew, I decided to implement a brief description of the construction of the groups present amongst the crowd of victims as a note in order to make the crowd seem more realistic and in order to mimic the stereotypical mix of travelers including: a young couple, a mother and son, a family and a teacher with children on a excursion. Moreover at the very beginning of the page I will introduce the overall filming basis in order to help with the comprehension of this scene: A closer look of the victims is captured. Snapshots of the victims of various typical situations of people on their way to the airport.
- 5. - My intention for the supporting character( bubble character) is to represent a vivid contrast to the main character primarily visually with an eccentric wardrobe and later with a complete opposing view embodied by a tone of optimism In order for the background chatter to be dominate in this part of the scene as the focus is to be placed on the suspenseful meeting between the supporting and main character, I have decided to change the background chatter into a voiceover in order to reduce its significance. I wanted to point out the meeting with the two more vividly and to add to the suspense of the meeting by leaving the identity of the main character a mystery to the very end, as it is in fact the same person as the bubble character which is in fact his subconscious. Instead of the main character being amazed and astonished, I have decided to lead the conversation between the two characters in a more casual manner.This is because he is in fact talking to himself as tries to unravel his misery. Due to this the tone of the main character is rather more interrogative as he is examining and questioning himself rather than being surprised.