I first joined the Anoxia team under a temporary role of script consultant, as Lily was in search of help with the story and dialogue in the film. This was a role I was very interested in taking up on a third year film, as I have extensive creative writing experience outside of university.
 
Throughout pre-production I worked together with both directors to develop the script, beginning by adding notes on Lily’s work, then later reorganising events and writing sections from scratch, with notes from the directors. This collaborative approach to writing made it easier to patch weaker areas of the script through joint work, but also resulted in some confusion and redundancy, when some parts where added or removed from the story without everyone knowing. To help counter these issues, we used Google Docs’ built-in edit history feature to keep track of each other’s work on the script, as well as saving a new file when major changes were made.

My role with the script eventually developed into a general story consultant, as I was often involved within discussions between the directors and producer regarding the progress of the film, becoming a de facto member of the core crew.