The reading that I really enjoyed this week was ‘Writing the Short Film’ which has three, very different, short film scripts.

The first thing that excited me about this reading was the diversity of the three scripts. They would all become very different films, yet they all manage to entice the reader. The character’s predicament is very clear and is put in the forefront early on. Rather than taking a while to set-up the scenario, the characters are thrown right into the action, forcing them to react and respond. I’ve realized that this is crucial to making a short film as there is only a limited amount of time to tell your story and the best way to do this is to put the characters straight into the situation.

The other thing that interested me was the way each of the worlds were constructed. It demonstrates that as long as your world doesn’t contradict its own set of rules, you can create any world that you desire. The way in which that particular world was shown from the protagonist’s point of view was also critical to telling the story. The way that they view the world is integral to understanding their personality, predicament and how they deal with it.