The Argonauts and writer/directors

The Argonauts is a one hundred and ten minute screenplay depicted in the genre of

children's adventure film, set in the suburbs of Brisbane in the early 1990s. It tells the

story of four friends who embark on adventure in an attempt to save their parents' shops

from a corporate takeover. The exegesis explores the dual role of the screenwriter/director

and the affect on the screenplay of the shifts in mindset required when these roles are

undertaken by the same person. Screenwriting and directing are explored as two separate

but interlinked disciplines. In this paper I have draw on my experience in these two roles

to discuss their inter-relationship. In order to understand how the two roles of

screenwriting and directing interact, challenge and compliment one another when carried

out by the same person, I analyse the interplay of these roles within the specific areas of

character, narrative and setting in the writing and revision of the screenplay, The

Argonauts.