Script

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

What is in a film script?

• dialogue: when to say it, who is 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 enter or exit a scene

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." 

 However we felt like we needed to add some voice overs and other sound effects over the top to add some dimensions and to make the scene easier to understand. We recorded voice overs and sounds we thought could be effective in telling the story and setting the scene. We included screams, running, shouting, leaves rustling etc. We used a website called www.freesound.org to get other noises we weren't able to use at school, for example police sirens and smashing glass. Furthermore we used it for other noises such as leaves rustling and running because the ones we recorded our self picked up the wind in the background and didn't sound effective as the wind is what you could predominantly here. We also had to record our teacher saying the police officers part because the actor we used left before we could film her saying it, so we used the voice recorder to do this and just used it as a voice over.

Our opening scene is in a cyclic structure so the scene, which is set in a police station, is actually at the end. Throughout the scene the characters are having a flashback. A flashback is a scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened previous to fill in crucial back story. In our scene the flashbacks are of when the girl got abducted and rape so we have used heavy breathing, screams and running etc. We felt that the flashbacks were needed because the audience may have been confused as to what happened to the girl and who the different characters were and where they were etc.