And it’s Worth Every Penny!
It’s easy to think you don’t need a script, or that a script is a pain to deal with, or that writing is easy. None of that is true.
Although we sometimes joke that “the script practically writes itself,” recognize that this is tongue-in-cheek. Writing is hard work. A lot of delicate and careful elements go into each script, and everything — characters, settings, props, mood, motivations, and more — must balance carefully. It’s a craft.
This is not to say that the other elements of filmmaking aren’t crafts, but the script is the first and lowest-level document. Everything has to come from the script at some point. Every character, every setting, every description, everything.
The script is the blueprint. It takes a lot of work to make a good story’s underpinnings invisible.
