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Decoding: An Honed Script Is Not a Perfect Script

Déborah Braun

It’s Not About Writing a Perfect Script, but a honed one


Because the perfect script does not exist. It cannot exist, as it is not an end in itself.

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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