The Script

Retro Scripting:

Whilst looking at how to convey the script and what type to use, through research and lots of thought we thought due to our circumstances we should use something we researched called retro scripting.

A retro scripted script contains a plot outline and leaves dialogue deliberately vague for interpretation by the actors/actresses through improvisation. This technique can add strong realism and characterization to dialogue making the film come across believable and natural to an audience. This technique is commonly used in low budgeted films and sometimes the use of this technique causes the film to be incredibly successful: for example; 'Paranormal Activity.'

The technique of 'retro scripting' is used mainly in 'home made films' with low budgets that cant afford special effects and high-tech equipment. Because we are producing a 'home made' media product with no budget and the use of one hand held digital camera, we want to try our best to relate our media product to some type of existing products already out there. Therefore we are going to use this technique for our opening scene that we are going to produce. We feel the use of this technique may help us to achieve and produce a more successful opening scene because we will be able to create strong realism and characterization to dialogue making the film come across believable and natural to an audience.

Inspiration:

The opening scene that we are going to produce, we can highly compare and relate to existing media products that involved extremely low budgets, (if there was any budget at all) and minimal technology.

Existing media products, some more successful than others, that used this technique are listed below:
-Summer Heights High
-Trailer Park Boys
-The Blair Witch Project series
-Paranormal Activity

These films used a technique where the directors 'attempted to focus on believability rather than action and gore,' In these films they believed that; 'a "higher degree of plausibility" was created for an audience as they were "more invested in the story and the characters."' And therefore technique called 'Retro scripting' was used.

To help us learn about Rectro Scripting we used the following websites to provide us with the knowledge we need:

- Wikipedia
- State Master