Blog Post #16 Film Opening Screenplay

Final Screenplay 

Media Language 

    The highlighted portions in the screenplay are intentional choices for editing, sound, or camera techniques that help further the narrative or are conventions of the genre. 

Reflect and Revise 

I think the glitchiness works well in my opening to keep a sense of mystery and suspense. I can hint at the conflict but not give away the entire plot of the film. I think the hardest thing to communicate visually is the relationship between my two main characters. Especially since I don’t want to fully show them yet, showing their dynamic visually is difficult. One change I made after creating an original draft was cutting down the length of the broadcast segment. I had planned in the beginning that the broadcast was going to take up around 70 percent of the opening because I wanted to show a lot of visuals about what specifically the crisis was, but I decided that it would be better to keep more mystery in what was happening.