Above is the finalised version of my script... I'd like to say that it was an easy process to get it to this state, but I would be lying! My story changed and evolved quite dramatically throughout the script writing process and I think I ended up with about 6 or 7 different scenarios before I arrived at this final version.
Being in the Aardman storyboarding department meant that I could test my ideas out and see what the story folk thought about it. This was both good and bad I would say... I found it quite challenging to take on board peoples feedback and advice whilst still retaining some semblance of the story I was trying to initially tell, their advice was always great and would really help my narrative, but at times I also found myself doubting my characters, and doubting whether my story was one worth telling. When I mentioned this feeling to the storyboard artists they all laughed and gave me a knowing smile, saying that that was a very, very familiar feeling for anyone involved in storytelling. They then reassured me that it was all part of good writing... that you should spew out all the terrible ideas onto paper, sifting through the good and the bad, seperating the wheat from the chaff, subsequentally making your story more robust and muscular. So although I went through so many different versions of my story, I am glad that I did. It made me far more aware of who my characters were and once the characters were more defined, the story almost started to tell itself.
Below are examples of my earlier story ideas, which evolved (slowly!) into Between the Trees as it is now...
Being in the Aardman storyboarding department meant that I could test my ideas out and see what the story folk thought about it. This was both good and bad I would say... I found it quite challenging to take on board peoples feedback and advice whilst still retaining some semblance of the story I was trying to initially tell, their advice was always great and would really help my narrative, but at times I also found myself doubting my characters, and doubting whether my story was one worth telling. When I mentioned this feeling to the storyboard artists they all laughed and gave me a knowing smile, saying that that was a very, very familiar feeling for anyone involved in storytelling. They then reassured me that it was all part of good writing... that you should spew out all the terrible ideas onto paper, sifting through the good and the bad, seperating the wheat from the chaff, subsequentally making your story more robust and muscular. So although I went through so many different versions of my story, I am glad that I did. It made me far more aware of who my characters were and once the characters were more defined, the story almost started to tell itself.
Below are examples of my earlier story ideas, which evolved (slowly!) into Between the Trees as it is now...
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