Scripting - Small fish in a big pond

'A camel is a horse designed by commitee.'

Whenever I watch a bad film (their are a fair few out there by my watch), I am always amazed at how anyone can make so much bad stuff and yet still greenlight their various projects. Why don't they realise those lines are awful?, Don't they know the acting looks forced? How can the man in charge of The Godfather Trilogy think that a film like 'Jack' is acceptable etc. Of course I am very naive. Just trying to compile together a short Summer Project, I am starting to realise
just how easy it is for a vision or idea to be altered and compromised in the face of just getting the job done. So far due to whatever reason, the film will alter quite sigificantly from the script that has been written. As Paul Zimmerman said when his script was endlessly revised by his director during the making of 'The King of Comedy' - 'it's like having a baby that looks like Martin Scorcese.'
In that particular case, I think he's being a little unfair seeing as 'The King of Comedy' was actually a cracking film and in De Niro's Pupkin, one of his most underrated performances of all time. HoweverI think his sentiments probably ring true among a number of screenwriters.

Now this blog may sound like I'm moaning which isn't the case. I am optimistic about the Summer Project and hope that everything will go well. But I think I am begininning to learn some important things about the film making business. For example, as good as a script might be, everything else has to be equally as good for it to show up well on screen (would people have been as transfixed to the staggering dialogue in L.A. Confidential, were it not for the fact it featured superb editing and lighting and looked flawless on the screen?) So much depends upon the acting, the camera work, the sound.... I am glad for projects like this for making me realise that the scriptwriter is really a team player and that like in sports games, the whole team must be able to gel and must be on form for the end product to be good.
We all get on very well together in our group and we have all been working hard so far. However with the unpredictable nature of filming and other unknowns like the quality of actors, and the rush to edit and sound check our work, I am very weary of the fact that we could end up with a good looking camelrather than a decent looking horse.