Script Writing –Monday 27th February

For all of those people who have wrote a script before you will admit that it’s quite hard coming up with a narrative, characters, and equilibriums on the way. But when you get told you have to write a completely new script within a couple of days, well it’s quite stressful. This script is for the short films were working on, it has to fit in the drama genre and appeal to the ages of 16-19. You’re probably thinking, easy, she fits in to that age range and I’m sure she can find something dramatic that’s going on in her life to write about. Well yes I would agree with you but when instant panic mode kicks in because all your brain seems to be doing is telling you how long you have left to completely finish a script. IT RESOLVES TO BE QUITE STRESSFUL.



Since my last script had hints of romance in I got put in a group with others whose script also included bits of romance- which would hopefully make it a lot easier for us to write. We brain stormed a lot about what we could do, and then our tutor said ‘I want something a bit happier, something a bit DISNEY’.

You can’t get anymore Disney than this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRYU4cqUAUs

I spent about two days researching Disney films, looking at characters, reading fairytale books From everything I read I started noticing a pattern, the main character from a fairytale is always the vunerable character- someone who is in need of a ‘fairy god mother’ let’s say and in the end they find their ‘prince’ and live happily ever after.
So why not write a script based around that!? Everybody knows fairytales, everyone recognises them, and everyone loves them! So already there’s an audience for it, and not to mention the audience the short film needs to be aimed at would of grew up reading and watching them. 

For the script we settled for a teenage girl called Sarina (which obviously means Princess, haha think we’re getting a bit too much in to the whole Disney thing!) who has grew up picturing her life as a fairytale and that her story would end with her finding her prince charming. But in reality she is just a normal girl whose life is far far away from a fairy tale....

Oh did I mention, it flicks between her reality and her fairytale fantasy? Just wait till you hear about the costumes and make up we’ve got planned for it!