Script

Script

A screenplay or script is a written work by screenwriters for a film, video game, or television program. These screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated.

What is in a film script?

• Dialogue: when to say it, who's going to say it, how to say it
• Movement: where to move to, what to do, how to do it
• Setting: set the scene, where does the scene take place, what is the atmosphere like
• It is in chronological order
• Narrations
• When to exit/enter a scene

We do not have a set script to our opening scene as it hasn't got any sound in the clips. However we felt like we need to add some voices over the top to add some dimensions. We recorded voice overs that we thought could be effective over the top of our film, this included screaming, cries for help, trees swaying ect. We used a sound recorder to do this however some of the clips had picked up other noises that ruined the sounds therefor we used a camera record other sounds.

We do not have a set script our opening scene because we only have one line of speech which is the police officer who says:

1  "John Roberts, we are arresting you on suspicion of murder and rape. You do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defense if you do not mention when questioned something you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence." 

The beginning of the film is started as a flashback. Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story's primary sequence of events to fill in crucial back story. The creator of the flashback technique in cinema was D.W Griffith. Flashbacks were first employed during the sound era in Rouben Mamoulians 1931 film City Streets, but were rare until about 1939 when, in William Wylers Wuthering Heights as in Emily Bronte's original novel, the housekeeper Ellen narrates the main story to overnight visitor Mr. Lockwood, who has witnessed Heathcliff's frantic pursuit of what is apparently a ghost.