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In the early stages I wasn't highly involved in script writing, but I would suggest ideas which might be helpful and what sequences could be overlaid on the interviews in the final stages. Also, how it could be structured.

The first script was definitely a draft as we didn't exactly know much of what answers we could get and who, aside from Kayleigh, will be in our film, so the script was written trying to predict the final outcome.


The second draft was similar to the first in the sense of trying to predict the shoot and what access we'd be able to get (we weren't successful in getting the permission to film her at work)

Third draft had included roller derby (we thought we'd get a longboarder from Brighton at first, but she didn't reply to us on time) but still tried to predict the outcome. Also it was written as if for two separate documentaries. 
In the fourth draft the skateboarding and roller derby were mixed into one, but still was done before the day of the shoot so it tried to predict the action.
The fift draft was done after the shoot and after the transcripts were done so we knew what we're working with and what answers/shots we have.
The sixt draft was done similarly to the fift but it was a bit more cut down and some of the sync shots moved around.
 The seventh draft was one of the last ones because we started making edits on paper and sticking the sequences together with post it notes. It was even more cut down but still a bit of a mess as the characters didn't work well together.

After all of that we came to our new and final script which, at least to us, seems to work the best.













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