Script writing

The last two weeks we have been working with the stories we started on during the scriptwriting workshop with the screenwriter Barbara Slade, some time ago. We are all working on our own individual stories, which each is going to be a 20-page comic book and has to be finished in the beginning of 2014.

My story is a tragedy and is about two brothers who are working in an orange plantation in Argentina in the 1930’s. It is going to involve a lot of drama and… violence!

During these two weeks we have had focus on the writing process and in the first week we had the Danish scriptwriter Merlin P. Mann teaching us in outlining. By the end of the week we handed in an outline, a synopsis of our story and we could also hand in some character-sketches, which I did.

The second week we started writing our scripts with the Danish author and co-writer of the Danish “Valhalla”-series, Henning Kure. We had to write the scenes step by step and one panel at a time.

This week I explored how helpful a script is and how much you get to know your characters and the focus point of the story when you are in the process of writing a script.     

By the end of the week we got the opportunity to hear about Henning’s work with the “Valhalla”-album “Ormen I Dybet” from 1991, which was really interesting.