What does your shooting script look like?

[Flicker Pictures]

I was originally going to make this available on Lulu.com for print, but never got around to it and I don't think it would have turned out to be a bestseller anyhow! Much easier to make it available digitally. If you're interested, here's a look at the shooting script for my feature On the Fringe, shot in 1999.

http://www.flickerpictures.com/album/OTFscript.html

Give it a chance to load. Might take a few seconds...

What does your shooting script look like after it's been through production? Coffee stains? Ripped pages? Sweat from your brow? Blood from your actors? Vomit from the critics?

If you have any, post some samples here for fun. *if you'd like a gratis copy of the DVD, PM me and I'll happily send you one.

 

[Instag8r]

Way cool! I love stuff like this.

 

[Flicker Pictures]

Yeah, me too. Funny, I'm cringing at some of what I wrote, most of it we actually shot. I crammed way, way too much into this script for a first feature, but lessons learned. That's why DVDs are such a blessing -- all those cut scenes!

On the last page, I literally wrote: A mockingbird is carrying on... WTFWIT!? Hysterical.

Annnnd cue the mockingbird! Would someone please cue the mockingbird?? Who's handling the mockingbird!??

 

[Cracker Funk]

Cool, man. That's fun. I wish I would've kept my notebook. I didn't have an official shooting script. Honestly, it's cuz this production was so low budget that I cut costs in every way I could think of -- only the four lead actors had printed scripts! I stayed organized mostly in Excel. We worked from the actors' scripts, while on set, and if I needed to take notes, I put them in my notebook. I tried tracking it down, and all I could find is this page. This is what my shot-list looks like for a typical scene.

 

[Flicker Pictures]

That's great. Love to see the nuts and bolts on paper, working out scenes, camera set-ups. Definitely fun and interesting. Love the "talk shit quietly".

 

[directorik]

Cool idea for a thread.

 

[Flicker Pictures]

Whoa! Now those are some serious notes. Awesome. Dig the action column. Really great to see how a screenplay gets translated into a professional working schematic for production. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Cracker Funk]

That's great. Love to see the nuts and bolts on paper, working out scenes, camera set-ups. Definitely fun and interesting. Love the "talk shit quietly".

And here's the edited scene:

http://www.vimeo.com/17505109

Password: indietalk

This scene took forever to shoot! Just kidding. Sorry if I wasted 19-seconds of your life.

Nice organization, directorik. I gotta work on that.

 

[Flicker Pictures]

No time wasted at all. Good to see the fruits of your labor. Is this part of a new feature you're working on?
I like the "... hit pause and put on some draws " line.

 

[Cracker Funk]

Yeah, I like that line, too. Improvised on-set. Yes, this short scene is from "Antihero".

 

[SinEater]

Directorik, that's some amazing organization. One question, what are the different meanings of straight line, wavy line, and dashed line?

 

[Scoopicman]

My original shooting scripts. Some of them have scenes X'd off, like Jeff Palmer's.

The last 5 years, I've started making Scene Lists. I was able to condense a 100 page script to 5 pages. This works great as a checklist and is quick to search. This page has 34 scenes on it:

 

[Flicker Pictures]

Awesome, Mike. "A tale of dark love."

Yeah, the bulleted checklist definitely helps put the scope of production into perspective!

 

[scottfs]

I like the ideas outlined here. Who offers standard set-ups for a shot list and the note pages as outlined above.

Sorry to be so dense. I have a number of scripts, but that's as far as they've gotten. I'd like to actually make something some day.