Tuesday 15 October 2013
So I’ve begun to adapt
my story into a script.
Because in my story in
act 2 is Phillip training himself
up, originally I was looking to have a split screen montage in my script where
by on one half of the screen we see Phillip training and on the other half we
see Phillip getting bullied every day, but when I was trying to find examples
of this either in a script or an actual footage I didn’t have any joy as there
was nothing out there what I could find, however I did come across a few good
examples of split screens and montages in both screenplays and also footage.
The first example of a
split screen I found was one that I’d remembered from a film called Kill Bill
by Quentin Tarantino.
In this scene of the
film we’re watching “Uma Thurman” lying in a comatose state when an assassin
named “Elle Driver’ is in a separate room; dressing up in a nurses uniform and
preparing an antidote. All of this is happening on two separate parts of the
screen at the same time.
To get an idea of the
format of the screenplay and also the pacing of it on film, I read the script
at the same time as watching this scene to see how everything was organised.
The second example I’m going to show you is a montage from the start of a film called “Hot Fuzz” by Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright. With this montage the Screenplay follows a series of shots with voice over narrating the story as their introducing “Police Constable Nicholas Angel”.
Again, to see how they
managed to organise all of this I read the script while I was watching the
footage
This example I thought
I’d add into my research because I found it interesting, seeing a collage of
different types of split screens from a variety of films
While on the screenplay
website imsdb I checked out other scripts to see how the action scenes were
narrated in them, to help me with writing up my action scenes; and also with
general scene description. Some of the scripts that I check out were:
- Kill bill
- The Incredible
- Jason Bourne films
- Rocky films
- Hot fuzz
- American pie
Conclusion
Having done my research i've decided to go ahead with doing a montage in a series of shots structure whereby; it will start off in the morning with Phillip commuting to school and being bullied by Shaun and his gang, and then in the evening Phillip training in his garage, showing an improvement in the training scene as each day goes past.
Websites used for research
These are some of the
websites I used for my research
Kill bill script
