Writing It Down
With the story taking shape, your next task is to write it if you haven’t already. Although actually writing the story down is not completely necessary for such a short, visual production, it can help to give form to your thoughts and provide a good reference for later steps.
Stories that are destined for film or video are usually written in screenplay format. To bother with the entire format for this limited production won’t really be useful, so we’ll borrow some elements from it but strip it down to suit our needs. Here is the final script of The Beast so you can get a look at the format:
THE BEAST THE CAMERA COMES UP ON A WALL-HUNG PICTURE OF A VERY UGLY BABY, FOLLOWED BY ONE OF A FAMILY HOLDING THE BABY. THE CAMERA CUTS TO ...
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