Aice Media Blog: Calling Card: Rewriting the screenplay

Rewriting the screenplay

Earlier in one of my previous blog posts, me and my parthner submitted an incomplete version of the screenplay. After some reviewing we realised that that approach was not only unrealistic, but it was also a huge risk for us since we could be condemning ourselves to more work later on when we will work on shooting our clips. Since me and my teammate did not want to burden ourselves with a bigger workload, we decided that it would be better if we just simply created a viable script right now so we would not have to work in the future during filming process.

I personally did not know that much on screen play and scripts but after reviewing a couple of scripts from popular tv shows, i had realised what i needed to do. Credits to my parthner for suggesting I use Script Reader Pro, as he did as well, to research and analize a couple films. The scripts shown below provide excellent examples of well-written scripts and screenplays. The link for Script Reader Pro will be listed on the bottom for credits.

The films I will provide today as examples are Boogie Nights, The Way, Way Back; and Flightpan. After looking at these side by side, it was openly obvious that ours was just horrible. These proffesionally done scripts effectively build relationships and advance the plot while ours just existed for the purpose of submitting an assignment. This was not how we wanted to roll, so, we revamped everything.

With our newly discovered information, we got to work. And after a tedious while, we came up with our own, effective screenplay. This new screenplay better develops the dynamics of our protagonists, or Olliver and Matthew, advances the plot in a meaningful direction instead of just being there, and it also better establishes the relationships between all of the characters. The new screenplay will be shown below as well as the examples I personally looked at.