The scripting process should take a relatively short amount of time, as we decided not to have to much dialogue within our Film Noir, and to actually split the scenes we were storyboarding between each other and then bring them collectively together to form the whole script.
Georgia Sharp created a rough draft of the Script, and we all looked at it, took it away and made our own adaptations. I personally felt this worked quite well as we could focus on the storyboarding process and let the scripting process run alongside.
We split the script into the various scenes that we needed to film, with stage directions for the actors, as well as how to deliver their lines. This became very useful when we began the filming process as we were able to look into the various links between our characters and those of the Noirs we have studied in class.
When I looked at the script, I felt that I need to incorporate some quips and witty lines in order to make the flow of the text better as well as to include a strong convention of many Noir's for example in L.A. Confidential when Ed Exley says "A hooker cut to look like Lana Turner is still a hooker" - at which point Jack Vincennes tells him that it is actually the famous actress Lana Turner. This comedy makes it a lighter point to relax the serious nature of the plot and to refocus the audience where they could have been lost before.
A couple examples of the sections of our screenplay script we crafted, and the witty quotes I used to bring the text together are;
Spoken by Zoey to Hawke (Femme Fatale to Anti-Hero)
You obviously don’t know what it’s like to be an a-grade garter [spits the word] in this a-grade drug racket.
I used 'garter' as it's a feminine item of clothing that can be stereotypically negatively linked to 'ladies of the night', as well as the repitition of 'a-grade' to represent the type of establishment these people are linked with i.e. A grade Drugs - being very dangerous and illegal drugs.
I’m coming to make sure the wrecking ball doesn’t get too full of himself [gestures towards Kaine]
By using the phrase 'Wrecking ball', this gives the impression that there is an unstoppable force that throws itself into every situation, similar to 'a bull in a china shop'. This gives the audience an impression of what the character is like and also a prewarning/foreboding as to what he's going to do.
She’s no Kitty Collins that’s for sure.
By having Hawke say this line, shows his intellect (which separates him from the 'Chav' groupings to keep the audience interested). This also shows the target audience, as people who know of Kitty Collins, a character in another Film Noir called The Killers will be able to relate to this witty line.
Georgia Sharp created a rough draft of the Script, and we all looked at it, took it away and made our own adaptations. I personally felt this worked quite well as we could focus on the storyboarding process and let the scripting process run alongside.
We split the script into the various scenes that we needed to film, with stage directions for the actors, as well as how to deliver their lines. This became very useful when we began the filming process as we were able to look into the various links between our characters and those of the Noirs we have studied in class.
When I looked at the script, I felt that I need to incorporate some quips and witty lines in order to make the flow of the text better as well as to include a strong convention of many Noir's for example in L.A. Confidential when Ed Exley says "A hooker cut to look like Lana Turner is still a hooker" - at which point Jack Vincennes tells him that it is actually the famous actress Lana Turner. This comedy makes it a lighter point to relax the serious nature of the plot and to refocus the audience where they could have been lost before.
A couple examples of the sections of our screenplay script we crafted, and the witty quotes I used to bring the text together are;
Spoken by Zoey to Hawke (Femme Fatale to Anti-Hero)
You obviously don’t know what it’s like to be an a-grade garter [spits the word] in this a-grade drug racket.
I used 'garter' as it's a feminine item of clothing that can be stereotypically negatively linked to 'ladies of the night', as well as the repitition of 'a-grade' to represent the type of establishment these people are linked with i.e. A grade Drugs - being very dangerous and illegal drugs.
I’m coming to make sure the wrecking ball doesn’t get too full of himself [gestures towards Kaine]
By using the phrase 'Wrecking ball', this gives the impression that there is an unstoppable force that throws itself into every situation, similar to 'a bull in a china shop'. This gives the audience an impression of what the character is like and also a prewarning/foreboding as to what he's going to do.
She’s no Kitty Collins that’s for sure.
By having Hawke say this line, shows his intellect (which separates him from the 'Chav' groupings to keep the audience interested). This also shows the target audience, as people who know of Kitty Collins, a character in another Film Noir called The Killers will be able to relate to this witty line.
With the ending, due to the tight schedule of our Femme Fatale Emma Coulson, we decided to rewrite the ending without her. This made it so much easier to wrap up and explain the ending. We had James and Josh conversing in the alleyway, with varied focuses on them, and some interesting shot types. Similar to the suspense within Hitchcock's Psycho within the Shower scene, he used 78 bits of film in a 45 second clip. Therefore drawing on this, I though it would be effective to use a variety of shots while the characters are talking. We also re-wrote this in our group in a free lesson so that we all had input. We tried to include some witty remarks and make the delivery of the final scene interesting.
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