After writing a script, sometimes annotating it is good, it can help the director and camera people get a better understanding of how to film the scene, what the tone is, or what the vision for specific scenes are.

Below, is the title page of the first draft of our script (written by Sofia.) We haven’t decided on a title for our film, therefore it just says “AICE” as of now, but we hope to come up with a title this week. We also have the date our first draft was made, this can help us map out our time, and plan accordingly.

Below, you can see the start of our actual film. We plan to open the film from a fade in from black, and our setting for our first scene will be an empty road at nighttime. Sofia does a great job of describing the noise and setting for our first scene. The “beat” in the script shows there will be a pause before anything happens, so it’ll just be one shot of the road while everything is quiet. Then the action happens, the car is quick, the music is loud, and I made sure to show that with my annotations. I wrote down which shots were important, what audio effects we may need to incorporate, and more.

Then we fade into black and go into our opening credits and title sequence. After that’s done, we fade into a new scene, with a completely different vibe and atmosphere. It’s now daytime, we can see our female lead, Sophia, happy, bubbly, and singing inside of a car, while we are then introduced to a new character, our male lead, Tony.

That was all I annotated for our first draft, but as we finish our second draft and final drafts, I will continue to annotate them as it helps us and our actors get a vision for what we had for specific scenes.