... Beginning of the Script? The shorter the film or video is to be, the more license is given the scriptwriter to plunge right into the middle of things In this case, because the film is to be so short, ... Where?—In the case of a short script, with a simple adaptation 50 Writing the Short Film From the very beginning of the film industry, fiction and drama have proved unending sources of film stories, ... that the images of a narrative film, whether visual or aural, should, like the language of a novel or short story, serve to illuminate the tale Rust Hills, in his excellent book on writing the short...