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Process: Giant Days #4 script
🕑 Added 2020-04-25 10:42:25 +0000 UTCHere's the script for Giant Days issue 4. It's the fourth script I ever had to write for another artist, and the first one where, apparently, I bothered to write panel descriptions for all of the panels. Perhaps we'll get into how I got away with that another time. I don't actually know how I got away with it.
My scripts got more detailed from here on out, but if it's 4000 words of script (including descriptions) I've undercooked it, and 5500 means I've overcooked it. This one's ~4400 - just right! Let me know if you enjoy seeing the scripts, and I'll continue to post interesting ones.
This is draft 2, I don't remember what I took out of the first draft - I seldom have to do much surgery to them. I work with a detailed breakdown so a lot of the work has been done before I get to the actually scripting. Issue 4's breakdown isn't as tidy as later ones but you'll see later how the process has evolved. Often I draw columns in my notebook and assign bits of plotlines to the main characters as I come up with them - but we can look inside the cuckoo clock of my weird writing brain later because nothing I tell you about that will help anyone in the least.
Comments
Myles Corcoran
I loved reading the script, but I imagined the characters as drawn by John, not Lissa. Weird how a brain works.
I love seeing scripts. It especially makes me happy that Ed Gemmell is always Ed Gemmell and never ever shortened. All is right with the world.
