Text Wizard Copywriting - Scriptwriting for films

Background

One of the funkiest features of the National Space Centre is its immersive 3-D cinema. Here is an environment where you can experience the thrill of space and time travel first-hand…almost.

The first feature was Big, a 20-minute film about measuring the size of the universe. The film is narrated by Lord Attenborough – and his script was edited by me.

Chuffed? You bet! The man's an Oscar-winner and I once fed him some lines. Best of all, he made an unprompted comment that his script was "very good".

Imagine a night-black, star-filled auditorium as the narrator's voice rolls through the opening lines…

	The dark, starry night. At some time or other, we’ve all looked up and wondered… How big?…How far? The universe is big – everyone knows that – but how big? If we kept on looking, farther and farther still, how big would big get? If we could travel as far as we can see, what might we find? It’s an age-old mystery. When we roll back the centuries, we see that our ancestors were much like us. They shared our fascination and our thirst for knowledge. From the stone age… …to the modern age… We’ve been intrigued by a night sky that seems so near…yet always out of reach. But now we are getting closer to unravelling the mystery… close, at last, to measuring the size of the universe. We now know that a journey to the farthest objects we can see would outlast all our lifetimes. None of us would live long enough to get there, let alone return. But that doesn’t stop us imagining what life would be like if we had the technology to bend time – to travel to distant stars, and take in the sights of the universe. This is the stuff of countless movies and TV shows. Science fiction: it’s our window on the future… Alas…it’s pure fantasy. The technology doesn’t exist – maybe it never will exist.