Sorry I haven't been posting recently as I've been battling against a nasty bug over the past few days.
Normally when writing a script, my influences would often come from sources and genres that I am normally familiar with and can comfortably work from. An example from the script I wrote for my Screenplay Module from the previous semester was using the time-travel plotline from the TimeSplitters video game series as a model for the story I was working on, since it used time travel as a plot device.
The influences for dialogue-writing can even come from characters you know from either reality or fiction. Such an example includes Timothy Dalton's portrayal of James Bond; when writing a piece of dialogue in one of the scenes, I used a line from the film Licence to Kill as both a model and a trigger in order to achieve the effect that I wanted.
Authors and creators such as George Lucas and Douglas Adams are also examples of people who I like up to when I'm writing a story.
Using models and triggers from things you know and enjoy are a useful way in helping you write a script, as well as coming up with strategies as to how character and location portrayal should be shown.
When writing the script for the drama however, it was a completely new challenge to me as to how I should execute the story ideas. Therefore it is one of the occasions where I'm forced to 'leave my comfort zone' when writing such things. I didn't use any reference models this time round and focused on whatever came to my head as I wrote the story.
I was expecting to be challenged, so I was glad when the flaws and such were pointed out. It helped me to redraft efficiently.
