On Wednesday afternoon, I sat with Alicia Edwards (the tutor of the unit and the person I go to present my script for feedback) and recorded a discussion, centering around what she thought of the script and what changes needed to be made. The task was to ask five probing questions to get the feedback I needed.
Mine were:
1. Is it clear what kind of tone the script is achieving?
2. Are the script prose vivid enough to be inspire imagery within readers’ heads, but short enough to not be boring?
3. Are the right technical definitions used in order to work properly as a production draft?
4. Do you think the story feels fleshed out, is it clear about where we are in time?
5. What could the script do more with, and do less with?
To my surprise, the majority of the session was about praising the script. It was mostly positive, and the only criticisms were technical issues in the script that made things a bit more unclear than they needed to be.
This criticism was brought up during the answer to Question 4:
The criticism was that, although in the scene heading it's highlighted what general time of day it is (Morning, Day, Night, featured in a lot of scripts.) it needs to be more specific.
Because of this, I've now placed the specific hours of the day that it takes place. If a scene doesn't have the time under it, it's because I've placed 'CONTINUOUS' at the end of the scene heading, which means the camera, although it's taking place in another location, it's following the action with no jumps in time.
Another pointer about the script brought up this bit.
Apparently, it wasn't too clear as to what that meant. This is the last change I had to make.
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