electricfilms pty ltd - a digital communication company
Graeme Beck has studied screen writing extensively for Drama and brings this expertise to all genres of Video Productions. Screen writing is 'the' most important aspect of film making. It requires a different skill to literature writing. Scripts need concepts and visual explanations written in such a way that can shown things happening, not just talk about what is happening. Graeme Beck is an expert at this.
Screen writing is writing for a visual medium, a medium that is far more powerful than the written word. Written language requires translating in the mind first, before concepts and images can be understood. The harder the concept, the harder the mind has to work. Images travel straight into the mind and are virtually comprehend immediately, bypassing this translation process. That is why film is a powerful medium.
The easiest and least expensive method of film making is putting images to voice over. 'Talking' about people doing things. The next stage in film making is to interweave voice over with action. The final stage of film making is all action, where we are watching what is going on, not being told what is going on. Feature films are usually in this category although there is a trend towards the easier method of voice over. It is a lot harder to write in a visual way and it requires the screenwriter to do the processing work for the audience, not the other way around.
In Corporate and Industrial video production, 'voice over' style of production is the usual form of production due to budget restraints. We always strive to capture 'live action dialogue' to interweave into the film, lifting the production beyond the pack. Our five hour documentary series on the creation of a stage musical production (link) is a perfect example on how we can shoot live action dialogue and make a documentary film without the need for any voice over.
Our video production editing services include script editing. We can knock your first draft into shape and turn it into and excellent video production.
Script examples by Graeme Beck.
feature film - the fortune hunter
television documentary - the prospectors
industrial video - zip instant hot water
Contact
Graeme Beck
Screenwriter
graeme@ electricfilms.net.au
(02) 9980 7788
m: 0411 82 7799
electricfilms pty ltd
SYDNEY AUSTRALIA