Another World; Project Brief 1

Prompt: “I learned something in the studio that highlighted my previous experience/lack of previous experience with screenwriting…”
In my experience of creating moving images, narrative screen-writing in a collaborative professional sense has not been encountered very frequently. In year 11 I submitted a script for a television ad to channel 7 as part of a road safety advertisement competition and won some iTunes vouchers, and in my last two years of high school I wrote screenplays for two short films. But these were solitary pursuits of a lonely creative.
Our first reading however, introduced me to the collaborative and professional procedure by which scripts are developed. It introduced us to some of the subtleties inherent to listening to, and giving feedback on a script in progress.
Before I read the text, I assumed it would be rather utilitarian and procedural. In other words, I imagined the process to be one of “it this, then implement that”. I thought it would mirror the almost production-line process that I discovered cinema to follow in the impersonal world of classical film production. Thus, I always assumed I would need to apply my own compassion and humanity to this subject, since the professional procedure often neglected this aspect in topics of cinema I have studies thus far.
I was surprised however to discover that the key points of wisdom contained within the reading were regarding the way in which one should conduct ones’ self with the other professionals. It urged a positive attitude in interaction between the producers and the script writer, even if the feedback was about changes or revisions. Even more subtle, it stressed the need, while adding script notes, to use the first person in order to perpetuate good will. Also interesting was how the text described the process of developing script as a continuing discussion, not something connected with inherent ideas of good and bad.
All these things formed an introduction for me to the world of professional screen writing etiquette.

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