Script to Screen - critical analysis

With the film script, it had to go through several re-writes, including input from Steve – who gave me constructive feedback on how to improve my script.

When it came to my initial re-write before handing it to Steve, I realised that a lot of my action could be broken into smaller sections to help with any pacing issues during the shoot. Steve also gave the feedback of the dialogue not sounding genuine or realistic to the situation. This feedback also made me realise, that even though I have been screenwriting for the past seven years, it didn’t necessarily mean I knew how to write a script perfectly, something which I quickly worked out. I also noticed when looking back on my script, that I was describing the ‘action’ too much and making the dialogue too expositional/formal, something which Steve didn’t agree with as he told us to only describe what the camera (the audience) can see and reveal only what they need to know.

During pre-production, I had forgotten how much work and preparation goes into organizing a film shoot – even a small 2 minute one. Because of this, I hadn’t effectively planned m timings out so it resulted in my actresses finding their free days later than I wanted, which meant we ended up filming on our last day of the shooting week – something that could have been risky. With this, I have learned for next time that I need to time manage more efficiently so I have less stress and more structure for the next film shoot, which would make it all easier on me.

When it came to the shooting day, we had luckily picked up the equipment on the Friday, allowing Saturday as a day for checking the equipment and making sure it all ran smoothly, I did have one hiccup that Ferg told me as I collected the equipment – it wouldn’t allow me to watch back my footage, so I just had to film my shots and hoped it all turned out okay when it came to editing week, which it luckily did. From this, I have learned that it’s always best to get my equipment a few days earlier, so, if it’s on a weekday,  can go into the studios and ask Ferg for help, something I couldn’t have done for this shoot as we were filming during a weekend and we were off-site for the day.


Then, it came to editing week – and not a very fun week. As I exported the footage from the camera onto the Mac, I made doubly sure that ALL files were saved onto both my hard drive and the Mac in order to prevent any footage being lost if one of the other stopped working, thanks to this, I was able to safely edit multiple times as the projects saved on my hard drive (where I knew they would be safe). However multiple times when I clicked on ‘Save As’ for my hard drive, all of the footage that was on the media timeline seemed to disappear – I was at a loss and wanted to give up right there and then: 2 hours of work, gone I a single click! Luckily, after some digging around in the imported clips, I had found that the footage I had bee editing had condensed itself into a single sequence, meaning editing became much harder and I couldn’t see the individual clips. From this, I have learned to use ‘Save us’ as I been editing, then clicking ‘Save’ for all the other times.

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