Exercise #1
Lens-based writing:
Frame 1:
In a room or container, a young girl in her twenties wears a dark blue windbreaker with her hood covering half her face. She smiles.
Frame 2:
The young girl goes down the well-lighted staircase and her hood is still covering her face.
Frame 3:
The young girl enters a nearly full car park. She passes the bright white light and walks towards the white pickup truck.
In lens-based writing, I wrote the description of the images by looking at the character appearance, action, location and main objects.
Scriptwriting:
INT. UNKNOWN ROOM – NIGHT Her hood covers half her face. A grin forms as she admires herself in the mirror. INT. STAIRCASE – NIGHT The light bounces off from the white wall but her face remains hidden under the hood. She walks down the staircase with both her hands in her pockets. INT. CARPARK – NIGHT The car park lights start to flicker when she enters. The car park is nearly full since it is time for everyone to be back home from work. Her footstep is light. She approaches the sparkly white pickup truck.
In lens-based writing, I described the girl and make an assumption of her age. However, in script writing, I did not describe her as much because I want to make her identity more suspicious. In these three pictures, I want the audience to feel suspicious and curious as to whom this person is. The lens-based writing has helped me see what there is in the picture and in script writing, I start to play around with the words. I tried to expand the visualisation of the world by adding things that did not exactly happen in lens-based writing. I also rearranged the words to make it sound a bit more colourful. This will help the audience to imagine and experience these three scenes.
I still struggle in describing the scenes in a more colourful detailed context. Also, in describing the framing of the scenes such as how the camera would pan just by reading the text. I feel that I am slowly progressing and through more writings, I will be able to find the right tone in describing such scenes. In conclusion, this exercise has given me a little push in how to improve my script writing.
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