Script writing (better late than never).

I've realised I have said nothing about my script or the writing process, so here is a little walkthrough.

I find the brainstorming thing quite difficult a lot of the time. It's so hard for me to think of an idea if I'm trying to... think of an idea. My usual way of 'idea making' is waiting for it to jump out on me. This normally happens while I'm doing my shopping or watching Morse (I've never watched Morse but you get the idea). For these occasions I have a little notepad which I whip out and scribble in. Unfortunately I had no suitable ideas in my notepad at the time. Instead my idea came from my inability to think of an idea for a script. All I had on the page was:

"INT. DAY. MY ROOM.

I'm sitting in my room waiting for an idea to fall into my head."

Then my house mate Georgia came in so I wrote:

"Georgia enters the room."

And the idea evolved from there, into the story of a student who can control his surroundings by what he types into this screenplay on his computer.

My main aim when writing the screenplay was to keep it within the parameters set. So that meant writing a script which could be easily filmed by students. And so that is what I did.

I discovered after getting the mark back and looking at the scripts short listed that simplicity to film wasn't all Mike was looking for. The short listed scripts included a film involving a room full of naked students, a film involving two children killing and cutting up a rabbit (the script I ended up doing) and a script in which a room flips over. The most difficult aspect of my film was a short rewind sequence. In retrospect, knowing what I know now, I would have written something more adventures. Next time maybe I will pitch a film about the infant Adolf Hitler's accent from hell. Hopefully the sheer audacity would out weight how impossible it would be for a university film group to film.