Post 8: Script Workshop 1

We were given the brief to produce a short film for this year's Media Studies coursework. We as a group believed we had a strong and original plot -focused on sexual grooming which is an uncommon plot line in films, from our AS opening sequence and we wanted to develop it further. My group and I whilst researching sexual grooming last year came up with various ideas on how we would extend the opening sequence and were   disappointed we could not do so, as we believed it had the chance to become a great short feature film. We took the brief this year as an opportunity to do just that and to explore more into sexual grooming and the relationship between the characters Alan and Sophie. 

The image to the left shows various scenes from the first script we drafted together with obvious annotation and cuts made to better our script. The first draft of our script included several errors and many mistakes which, of course was going to happen in the first draft, there was no avoiding that. Luckily because my group and I were using the basis of the storyline from our AS project, we had an idea of what we wanted our short film to be about.This of course meant there was a lot of discussion about the script, from what we wanted to happen and where we wanted to take it, to how we would make an obvious time jump and anything else that could cause a problem or confusion to the audience. 


My group and I believed it would be a good idea if we all took responsibility for the script and wrote our own selected scenes. By doing this I believe we were all able to help shape the characters and put our own ideas across and contribute. We then put together the script with the various scenes from each other and discussed what needed to be improved, what we all agreed worked and what we would cut and of course what we needed to add. Through out our discussions we always made sure that we kept the characters in our mind as we needed them to be as realistic as possible especially with our chosen topic and making our target audience believe the situation. Due to this we made sure the girl being groomed was a school girl, who would be groomed by her best friend's father whom she had known almost all her life.

Writing the first draft of a script isn't the easiest thing, you have to be creative, a team player as well as independent and make sure your ideas fit the situation. These can be very difficult things to do however I believe our group handled it well and it was an opportunity to show just how well we could work together in a team.