Charles Dickens' Paperweight Script | Development ~ PP

When starting work on the scripts, I knew I needed to do quite a lot of research for each objects so the content is accurate. I used the '100 Objects That Made Kent' website, which Rachel gave me access too, while also reading books they gave me during one of our meetings.
I decided that it would be easier and less complicated for me to focus on one script at a time.

Charles Dickens' Paperweight

For this script, I found the quoted letter, written by Dickens', and sent to the person (Mrs Cowden Clarke) who gave the paperweight to him. I split the sentences into different shots and next to the audio I wrote what shots I was planning on doing, along with shot sizes and any extra aspects that I needed to add when editing (text or effects).

Then once the letter was quoted, I quoted the part of 'Great Expectations' where the story is set in the Guildhall Court Hall. Along with these quotes, to differentiate between the letter and the book, I'm going to put a picture of the Court Hall and layer it over the top of shots of the paperweight. This will be done throughout the editing stage and the opacity of the paperweight shots will be decreased so you can see both visuals.

The last quote I wanted to be something that is well-known, so I picked a quote from 'A Christmas Carol' as that's one of Dickens' most well known novels.

Most of the visuals within this video will be artistic CU's and MS's of the paperweight, and within the editing I will add a type of effect onto the images to make it look more vintage, for example I might add a static effect to relate to the history of the item.

I'm planning on adding text so the audience know where the quotes are being quote from, and at the end of the video the text will say what the item is called and where you can find it - which is at the Guildhall Museum.

I am going to send this script to Rachel so if her and Jeremy want to change anything or adjust any of the words they can.