Summer Project Diary - Week Three

They say that a scriptwriter's profession is a lonely one and in most cases this is probably true.
I hope however that their will be many more chances in the future when I will get to work with a group whose skills vary substanitally over different media platforms. Having set deadlines and people interested in your ideas is a refreshing sensation and a challenge to try and satisfy the group's needs. Helping out other people with their line of work is also a challenge and is helping me to become more aware and sensitive to the importance of both tv production and interactive media.

All of a sudden I am aware that the script is only a small part of this whole production. I have had to write props lists, shot lists, having to think about exactly how I want this script to look on screen. It is very exciting and also
a new and responsible experience of not only having and writing a vision, but having to make this vision come to life aswell.

This week I have had the fun task of helping out with the interactive media side of things by writing My Space profiles for a few of the short film's characters. I have realised by doing this that writing profiles like these would actually be
quite a fun and effective way of writing characters for scripts - what with all the blog, video, interests and activities options etc, that are set out on the page. It is a challenging exercise as I have to dwell into the mindset of each character and really think about the kind of person they are. I think it is a positive exercise and besides helping our website cause, it is helping to clarify these characters in my mind. I am gradually building up their lives and making them as real as possible which should help transform my vision of them when it comes to filming.