Authors MUST use visual language in screenplays, to aid not only the common reader, but the director, producer, and cast as well. Wallace and Kelly's visual language was great. They used descriptive writing to show surroundings and to set mood. The city scenes were not as vivid as the Amish scenes. They kind of skipped around in the city scences, making it a fast paced, dangerous world. But, this stategy really makes the reader want out of the city, which really sets up, and makes us love the Amish community and surroundings.
During the Amish parts of the movie, Wallace and Kelly get a little more descriptive of the surroundings, and the amish community. They really showed the lifestyle of the hard-working Amish people, something that I, and probably others, have never really experienced.
- Jake Hodges
1. Is the visual language clear, and easy to comprehend to the reader in Witness?
2. When you are reading, can you tell that the story is written by two people?
2 comments:
I don't know that I can “tell” that this script was written by two people, but it certainly feels like it has two distinct voices. The story in Philadelphia is that of a detective story, there isn't really any more to it that a procedural cop drama, like an episode of Law and Order. But the stuff on the farm is more introspective, like some big questions are being asked. The difference in the tones is a giveaway, but very little else.
I think the language in Witness was very clear. There wasn't a point in the story at which I was unsure of what was going on. There are two distinct feels in the script - we have the crime drama on one side and the romantic comedy on the other. I didn't necessarily pick up that it was two authors, but it is fairly easy to see in retrospect.
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