Scripting

When making a film, an important part is the script, as it will ultimately be what makes or breaks a good film. It's hard to make a good film out of a bad script! Our film opening is mainly one action sequence, but it does contain dialogue within it, and therefore we need to script this before we get on locaion so that we know exactly what we are doing. A script would also help in fixing down the synopsis of the opening fully and in detail, so would eb a big step forward.

It is important in a story that early on each character gains a definitive voice, and it is obvious from an outset about their relationships with all the other characters. These two points are what will shape the dialogue, and from following this formula the dialogue should come pretty naturally. In this way, writing the script also helps with character development, and therefore with the acting.
Our main character is Agent Davidson, but will be known in the film as simply 'Davidson', as 'Agent Davidson' sounds incredible childish andit doesn't sound serious at all. From his experience working as a government agent we would expect him to take any sort of mission reasonably seriously, and use a few military semantics. Being on the good side of the law he is a bit like a fish out of water in the opening scene, as he is not used to having to avoid the police or break the law. The company he is in a mole with isn't as strict as the L.E.E and so the more laid back atmosphere seems very uncanny to him. However he will try to act as if he knows what he is doing and try to fit in with them, so his dialogue will be a combination of casual and using the formal semantics. To appeal to a wider audience, we have also crafted Davidson as quite suave, and he has a bit of a James Bond air to him. With this in mind the dialogue should perhaps be a bit less formal at times.

The people working with Davidson for the kidnapping company are a lot more laid back, and although they get the job done, they are not as used to strict rules and efficiency as Davidson is. During the scene we have decided that one of thier men is drinking coffee whilst on the job, and another is eating a sandwich. This also gives the feel that the mission is not that serious at the moment and was not meant to go further. Starting out like this makes it all the more shocking when the mission goes so drastically wrong, after everyone had started out so calmly and securely. These characters will talk very informally down the phone to the extent where they are almost talking lazily. At first in the opening, these characters will even yawn a few times, to give the idea that they do not have honest jobs where you have to get up early all the time.

Although a lot of communication comes through non-verbal communication, this is considerably harder in the opening sequence as all the characters are talking through ear pieces. They are trying not to give their position away or seem like there are more of them around, so they are talking as covertly as possible, not leaving much room to communicate non-verbally.The difficulties that come with filming a conversation through ear pieces are that the timings might go a bit wrong between listening to the other side of the conversation and replying. They also will not know the tone of voice that the other actor uses, and so their reply may be under or over acted. To get over this problem the actors will have to go through the dialogue in detail before filming.

The script is still in very early stages at the moment, but it will be posted on here as soon as it is finished. I will also post showing the progression of the script from first to final draft.