FILM: Scripting

When creating a short film it is usually acknowledge that a lack of dialogue is present, therefore the character is potrayed through the use of camera shots and angles rather then dialogue. This therefore meant that the majority of our scripting was stage directions. When deciding the camera shots that would be used we took into consideration the main idea of the short film itself, we did this so this could help us towards using the right camera shots or angles to create or decrease suspense that the audience will feel. When in the process of making our script we did several drafts until it was fully understandable what the characters were meant to be doing and where this was meant to done. Here below is an example of our final script and also two versions of our scripts when in the drafting process.





Due to the lack of dialogue present in short films we needed some sort of audio to create an atmosphere for our short film. We therefore decided to go with a form of digetic sound. This meant that us as a whole group had to come together and research several genres of music to see which one we all felt suited the genre of our film either to create of decrease the level of intensity during certain scenes. However, when researching for our music our ideas changed. We first originally thought that Snow Patrol - Chasing Car would be suitable, but we then realised the whole song itself was a very slow song and doesn't emphasis our short film very well.


When carrying on researching suitable songs we came across and old song that we thought would fit the genre and mood of our short film and this was "The Cure - Friday I'm In Love." We then used this song throughout opening sequence.



We then found it much easier to research songs after this. We then need a soundtrack to our film which would be present after the opening sequence until the end of this film. To do this we needed a song that would increase tension during the time the lead character Scarlett was searching. The suitable song we chose was "Ten Second Epic - Old Habits Die Hard."