script ideas and analysis

Having read scripts before, I was not shocked by the different kind of writing that is used as some other may have been. I feel like to modeling that writing style it is important to divide the writing into two groups, the technical aspects and the dialogue. In the first case you must focus on minute details that will contribute stage direction, actions, and camera control. These facets take a technical writing style that is substantially different than any style that students are typically told to write. This is a common thread with the second writing that will be incorporated, dialogue. Writing a dialogue is different from other types of writing because, like a speech, you are writing spoken words. This can be difficult because often words come out differently when spoken, than when they are written. It is often helpful in these scenarios to speak the words as they are being written.

Thus far I have had little time to develop any script ideas for the impending project. I have thought of a couple rough sketches for topics to run with, however. One being a sort of remix of the movie The Village, in which a group of people live in a seemingly pre industrial village that is in fact just secluded from the rest of the 21st century. My remix of this story would involve just children being razed in a building that they would be taught is the last structure standing after a nuclear fallout. The people in the building wouldn’t be able to leave or communicate with the outside world, and in the end they would be able to escape and realize that they were mislead. The administration would be overly strict and have an almost religious feeling that they were protecting the buildings inhabitants. When they got to a certain age people would be moved to different sectors and given specific work to do. It would all have a very Stepford feel and would encompass other details from little brother.

I believe this theme that the administration is overly protective of its people is one that can be adopted in many ways and hope to use it in my project if possible. Many scripts and movies have been made with this as a theme and I believe I could learn a lot about the camera angles and dialogue from studying those scripts and movies. It will help to have a similar idea to an already made movie because then professional strategies can be adopted.