Transcript

NICKY EARNSHAW

Every scene in a script will be different, but basically you start with what's the scenario? So it might be two people sitting in a cafe together, so obviously you check in your schedule. So this is like a database, actually, so each page is a database. You say, OK, the location is the cafe, the characters are x and y. There are, you know, cafe wait staff, waitresses, there's somebody behind the bar. So they're probably background artists, there may be other customers in the cafe because obviously there will be activity. So you put all of that sort of detail in, and you imagine how the scene will play out.

If two people are just talking, then it's a very simple description. If somebody comes in with a gun and starts firing at everybody, then that's a very different thing. You start putting in all sorts of things about probably stunt doubles, there's probably- you know, there's armoury, and you start imagining what kind of shots would they use for this. Say for instance, you know, a more interesting director might say they want to have a shot from the window, and pull away on a crane or something like that, because there's something big going on, and eventually the cafe explodes. And all that has to go into your scene description. So it all depends how it's written in the script.

So the script is very much a blueprint for what goes into the schedule.