We have decided that for this short film we will not be using a script, as we believe that the characters will not need to say any lines. We didn’t have a script in our previous project, which was the first two minutes of a film, and we felt this was very successful. We understand that this is a different prospect as we are doing a short film, making this film three minutes longer, however we still believe we can carry a storyline and make the film funny without a script.
After watching some short films, in particular some of the Pixar animations, this has proved that short films without narrative can work extremely well. Our main character will not be getting himself involved in much interaction therefore if we were to have a script it would be extremely limited, this has led us to the decision to have no script at all.
We recognise the challenge, however feel this would add to our short film not take anything away. We don’t want to be lazy in the way we get messages across, and if we were to have a script this could give us an easy way out. With no script we know we have no other way to tell the story other than by the visual, which we think we can achieve, and achieve well. This should hopefully keep the audience engaged in the film, as they will have to extract information from the visual, music, and sounds.
We also feel this will give us greater opportunity to include music, and experiment with sound. Last year we made our own soundtrack for our film, which we were extremely proud of, and we look to do the same thing this year.
