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I once took an English class where we read screenplays that were printed in a book. One of them was of the great movie "Chinatown." The professor --- who had

I once took an English class where we read screenplays that were printed in a book. One of them was of the great movie "Chinatown." The professor --- who had never worked in film-- said: "See, the screenwriter really comes up with everything. See how he thinks of every scene, every bit of dialog, that the actors and the directors follow." Later I read a book about the making of Chinatown and learned that the script was some huge thing that Robert Town and Roman Polanski rewrote every day while they were making the movie. The version in the text book was the correct script in the order of the final cut. Anyone who takes a class in video game design or development should be wary of those who haven't really done it.

dragonwriter 10y ago
The professor may not have worked in film, but probably was still aware of the process (which, at the level of description you provide, is pretty much common to all film.) The professor remains correct that all those things are the role and responsibility of the screenwriter (and will, in fact, be reflected in an intended-as-final screenplay before the inevitable revisions that occur during shooting and the changes to the final result that occur in editing, etc., that end up getting reflected in a.ouhlished script.) In an English (even screenwriting) class that isn't a class on filmmaking process, the details that you object to be omitted are generally irrelevant to the focus.