It’s Not About Writing a Perfect Script, but a honed one
It is not the finished work but its intention. And while a script is the intention behind a film, it is not just a draft! Rather, it is the imagined version projected onto an internal screen.
It is the first writing form of the film.
The goal is not to write a perfect script, but an honed one,
Because an honed script goes far beyond the pursuit of perfection.
It is a text ready for its next transformations:
Ready to be filmed,
Ready to be brought to life by actors,
Ready to be enriched by the creative input of a team, the unexpected, and the inevitable constraints (of shooting, budget, deadlines, etc.).
A complete script is both the story and its blueprint.
Cinema is an art of three successive and different forms of writing:
The script – the foundation of the film.
The shoot – the creation of its raw material.
The edit – its final construction, where everything takes shape.
Cinema is a living, dynamic, and collaborative art.
And the script is its driving force.

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