Fiction Adaptation: Script

 Script

Initially, going into the project, I decided that I wasn’t going to have any dialogue. However, when editing the film, I felt as though it would benefit from some dialogue. As a result of this, I decided to do a voice over. 

I thought carefully about the footage I had and how I could create a voice over that matched up with the footage and still images.

I drew upon my own experiences of being sexually assaulted and looked at the impact it has had upon both myself and others. I wanted to bring to light that being sexually assaulted often has both short- and long-term effects upon victims/survivors (Boyd, 2011). 

I made an initial notes page of potential dialogue that I could include within the film. From this, I then looked at the footage I had and selected the dialogue from the rough script that I had written and put it into the final voice over script. Within the script, I also wanted to link it back to the sonnet that I had chosen, “Time Does not Bring Relief” (St. Vincent Millay, 1917, cited in Rymer, 2021). I decided to put the title of the sonnet at the very beginning of the film as I felt that that was where it was best suited due to the sequence of the film being about the impact that being sexually assaulted has had on her. 

Figure. 1 Initial Voice Over Script for Fiction Adaptation

Figure. 2 Initial Voice Over Script for Fiction Adaptation

Figure. 3 Initial Voice Over Script for Fiction Adaptation

Figure. 4 Final Voice Over Script for Fiction Adaptation

Figure. 5 Final Voice Over Script for Fiction Adaptation

Bibliography:

Boyd, C. (2011) The impacts of sexual assault on women (ACSSA Resource Sheet). At: https://aifs.gov.au/publications/impacts-sexual-assault-women (Accessed 12/12/2021)

Fig.1 Initial Voice Over Script for Fiction Adaptation (2021) [Notes, Screenshot] (Accessed 11/12/2021)

Fig. 2 Initial Voice Over Script for Fiction Adaptation (2021) [Notes, Screenshot] (Accessed 11/12/2021)

Fig. 3 Initial Voice Over Script for Fiction Adaptation (2021) [Notes, Screenshot] (Accessed 11/12/2021)

Fig. 4 Final Voice Over Script for Fiction Adaptation (2021) [Notes, Screenshot] (Accessed 11/12/2021)

Fig. 5 Final Voice Over Script for Fiction Adaptation (2021) [Notes, Screenshot] (Accessed 11/12/2021)

Rymer, M. (2021) Fiction Adaptation Lecture Series. [Kent: University for the Creative Arts 25/10/2021].