The purpose of the script is to entertain people as it’s a film, and that’s what they’re intended for; to inform, about the way that the underground works and functions, and also the way that somebody with AS (Aspergers Syndrome) views the world, as the main character, James, has said Syndrome.
The characters JD and James (Sometimes referred to as Jesus) are based upon the characteristics, attitudes and actions of real people, only the names have been changed. Some scenes have also been exaggerated to increase effect of the final output and intended media, Film.
From the way the characters act and how each one speaks, based upon his real life being, it may hint to the audience that both JD and James have underlying secrets, and as James does have AS, it may broaden the minds of the audience members that have no knowledge of AS traits or even the syndrome itself. From this extract of my script, the audience imply for themselves that James, irrespective of the fact that he has AS or not, that he’s arrogant and quite big headed, and also quite a big flirt when it comes to the women in his life.
The sequence of events in the script flow as it goes through a phase of introducing the characters, their characteristics, skills and such. Then it slowly moves onto their lives and essentially the essence of the script itself. I thought the script structured like this would make it more interesting, and more appealing to the audience.
Several changes were made to the script including a lot of grammatical and spelling mistakes. A lot of research went into the actual methods of the actions that the characters perform, such as the pick that James performs in the school hallway, the lock that James picks to enter the den, so to speak, and also the computer that James accesses. Before the changes were made the script was quite vague and missed out a lot of semantic fields; making the script seem somewhat unrealistic and hard to believe. Upon making these changes the script’s realism and believability increased ten-fold so to speak.
The genre of crime and criminology was pretty difficult to adapt a script to, as the semantic fields had to be precise, and the characters performing such actions, had to be made to seem as natural and as realistic as possible. Once the research had been done so that it fit the genre, it was just a matter of constructing the script around the genre and not the other way around!
