The Script Selection Process

The nature and the fun of selecting scripts and making a short movie, resulted into the decisions of picking out favorite parts from movies, play around with cameras and see how this can be contributed to our movie.



When selecting scripts, we were looking for ‘that something’ that we could shoot creatively but it had to be appropriate for our portfolios. The G3 Summit picked then ‘Sneaker Spastic’. The temptation of selecting a script outside the top ten was overruled by how we saw this as a practice of the workplace. If this was a given ‘job opportunity’, say if this was a large film industry called ‘Melbourne Universals’ and the same tasks were given, we would imagine that in this business, Christine was ‘the boss’ giving us 10 scripts to choose between. But there were others there as well. However, in a workplace where an editor did the same thing, we’d pick one out of the ten and worked on them with the technical support for the production and done one of the ten. It was just a natural decision.



After selecting ‘Sneaker Spastic’, it contained the factors we were looking for:
a dialogue, a simple but unusual action, a large amount of space we could play around in with directing, photography and sound, the setting where we could make a great effect out of colour balance (for example: in a cold color temperature but with different light sources 4000-4500 as its outdoors) and shooting a script that contains the creation of a psychological space. And also, as safety comes first, we figured out that if we shoot here, there wont be that many risk factors involved as there would be when filming in an open area filled with external factors. The risk and safety plan we have to make now is narrower and on internal factors as us and the handling the equipment, than what it could have been.




The best aspect in the learning process scenario is how large freedom we actually have in this assignment that we can build on together and amongst ourselves, with the author and with guidance. After the tutorial the group and discussing the choice with Paul, the group happy with the choice and the project can begin.