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how did I write my screenplay? How did I format my screenplay? what is action description/character/dialogue/scene heading?
I made the script the way it looks through StudioBinder which made it look like a real script.
I wrote my screenplay through a bunch of websites and as-well mostly inspired by Agatha Christie‘s whodunnit novels, like the part when the most innocent character the cleaner Ash was found Guilty for the crime that had took place at the beginning of the film which mirrors the character from the novel ‘Death on the Nile’ Jaqueline De Bellefort which was in the same situation as the character Ash. the dialogue was clearly more of a sophisticated style of writing which makes it suits the classic kind of story telling the story is going to .
the scene heading meant it would be in an outside place or an interior place by saying INT or EXT which makes it sound professional and make it look like a real script. the action description was mainly how the characters are moving and what they are doing which and the location was already told in the scene headings, the script took me around 2 to 3 weeks to write and finish.
Who did I cast and why?
I casted a bunch of people from performing arts course since it’s their field to do stage acting so they are the perfect people for the job, but then something came up , a final project they had too so they had to turn down the roles for my short film. The main reason I casted these actors was because of how good the actors were at the rehearsals and how natural they were in finding which character suits which.
What were my aims for production? (photos of studio)
Aims for production was to shoot a short film inside the Tv studio inside the David Hockney building, Rehearsals for a week then 2 weeks for filming then another week for editing.
This is what the inside of the tv studio looks like. On the right you got the tv screens where we see what the camera is shooting the studio through the tv screens that you can see in the picture, on the left you got the vision mixing station where we switch cameras in the filming process, on the far right that small computer screen is when the program where we start recording.
Now this is the inside of the studio where we thought we would have a green screen in which we can add different backgrounds on the back in editing the short film so basically as Graphics.
This sign was made when we decided it would look better if we film it outside behind the college where we can stick this sign on one of the buildings or a door and pretend it’s a police station but none of it happened since there was no time left for the practical which the production bit.
What happened?
The actors had a final project to do so I had no choice but only to do a trailer or a short scene taken out from the short since I couldn’t replace these 7 actors with others so I picked a short scene where the short film ends basically the Finale which only required 3 actors but they kept giving me excuses every week for the last 2 weeks that I had to finish it up so at the end of the last week my course leader told me that I should focus more on the digital space work since there is only one week left to hand everything and that I can’t risk it finding more actors and editing the short film which will take me about a week or so which is the same time that I should finish all of my digital space work.
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