In Week 11, we discussed the use of Scripts and the way in which we understand them. As Robin said, scripts are very efficient as they provide the most functional working document for all production departments. But it’s what you can’t read, on the script that we discussed. There’s so much that we see in a scene that’s never been written down. And usually, that’s the result of the interpretation of different artists involved in the production of the film. There’s a scene in the film Fantastic Beasts (2016) where the audience are first introduced to all of Newt’s mystical animals (see link below). There is so much artistic interpretation going on in this scene. Originally this would’ve been a few pages on a script. But this scene does so much more than what words can visualise. The wonder and the magic of this scene provides a complete visualisation of the artist’s interpretation of the scripts. The detail in the movements of the creatures are so unique that the animators have very little to base them off. Little things like these subtle movements of the creatures make cinema much more than the script.

This led us to our next thought. What can cinema give us that we can’t get from any other medium? If the script told us everything we needed to know, then why wouldn’t we just read the script? I feel that it’s essentially the artistic interpretation of the script that leads the creator to make the film he wants to make. Everyone visualises the words differently on a page. But it’s the artists job to illustrate their own vision for the film and that’s why people love and hate films based on books. Because their own interpretation of the text differs from the creator of the film.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to find Them Scene – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwdSrNpzjiU