an observation
I just stopped writing the teleplay for the next episode of The Nate Kemper Project. For the past few days, my bursts of inspiration and creative energy have fizzled out after a short time of actual writing.
I realized, however, that when I stop thinking about it in literary "story" terms, and instead concentrate on seeing the shots and the edits, the minutiae of scriptwriting becomes unimportant. A script is a blueprint, and it doesn't have to be perfect. The idea you have in your head needs to survive being translated from one medium to another more than one time. Idea -> Script. Script -> Images. Images -> Fluid Sequences. Sometimes, you have to be willing to do some violence to your "vision" for it to survive the translation.
This is something I have to keep in mind.
Comments
In response to this as well as your last post about process: It's sometimes tricky business. As a writer myself, I too look hard for the proper translation from thought to page. But I sometimes find trouble upon realizing that the image might be clear - the image that I want anyway - in my head, but that despite my writing ability and a sort of need to get it right on the page, the transition might be more efficient from thought to framed image; that something might be lost by making that transition from thought to page and page to film. This realization isn't necessarily a loss in and of itself, but once the idea of script is abandoned, the difficulty becomes maintaining the integrity of the original conceived image as much as possible from the inception of the idea through the time when opportunity to actually shoot it and finally edit it takes place. Unfortunately this creates the necessity of script - especially in long works. It becomes incredibly difficult to simply remember what one wants, just so, all the way up until it's been entirely shot and edited. I think in both cases - with or without script - some sacrifice of the original "vision" is often necessary.
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