Boards, beats, binaries and bricolage: Approaches to the animation script

Thinking about the nature and definition of ‘script’ for animated films is particularly problematic. The form accommodates so many diverse approaches to creating animated narratives that any one case might be unique to that project, and equally, any broad generalizations may be misrepresentative of the form as a whole. It is, nevertheless, the particularity of ‘animation’ as a model of expression that necessitates an enquiry about what constitutes a ‘script’, as this offers specific clues about the distinctiveness and attractiveness of the form to artists.