In the pitch, we mentioned going with the romantic/slice of life route and write about a love story between a boy and a girl. We decided to go with a simple plot line because in order to start on something that has never been ventured, it is ideal to approach it from the basics.

In the previous blog post, we wanted our characters to meet on several occasions at different locations – now, we just needed a solid script for the crew, actors, and actresses to follow. It was also in our decision to include as little dialogue as possible, that way, it would be less painful to edit and deal with the audio. Otherwise, the script would be filled with instructions of what the characters are supposed to do and how they’re supposed to act for each scene. I also have never written a script before so I decided to do a little research in terms of the formatting and the right terminologies for a script.

I thought this website was extremely helpful in that aspect, helping me format the script properly. I learned a lot of things, such as knowing how to open a scene with the terms, “EXT.” or “INT.” and using film/editing techniques in the script such as “fade in/out” each time a transition happens.

Our final script is straightforward, simple and encapsulates the whole romantic element of our short film. Like I have mentioned, there is little to no dialogue in our script, consisting of literally only “Sorry” and “Hello” – simple one-liners. How I intend for these lines to appear in the film is that it will come as a subtitle and of course, the actor and actress will still have to say the lines in reality. What I’ve learned over these past few weeks have been condensed into this script, especially the session with Arthur, where we had the discussion of scriptwriting and screenplay. I’m looking forward to seeing my script be played out in real life!