한국영화 시나리오포맷 표준화의 필요성과 실현 가능성에 관한 연구

The study on the necessity of script format standardization and its possibility in Korean movie industry

It is assumed that film medium was first introduced to Korea in 1903, then the first film was produced domestically in October 1919. Therefore, Korean film industry has 100 years of film-making history. It was during Japanese colonial era when the first movie was produced in Korea, therefore, the movie producing methodology was heavily depended on Japanese movie industry until the independence in 1945. After Korean War, Hollywood movies started to take over Korean film market and Korean film industry started absorb Hollywood’s movie producing methodology. On the top of it, there also was European influence because of popularization of Italian Neorealism and French New Wave. Korean film industry has been a true melting pot where Japanese, American, and European influences all mixed together. During those chaotic 100 years of movie producing history, there has never been a standardization of screenplay format. It is quite important to standardize scheduling and budgeting formats in order to raise production efficiency. Because all of the information needed for scheduling and budgeting of a movie comes from the screenplay, screenplay format standardization becomes the most important issue of a movie industry. Then why didn’t Korean film industry come up with standardization of screenplay format? We may assume two reasons for that. First of all, because Korea started producing movies during Japanese colonial era, Koreans never had chance to set up their own producing methodology. Second of all, Because Korean film market was so small compare to Hollywood, there was no chance of building gigantic studios those have power to standardize necessary formats. Every production companies in Korea had their own screenplay format. Film crew had to learn new formats each time they work on productions. Hollywood’s screenplay format is based on a minute per page. That way, everyone working on the production is able to estimate the total screen time of a piece that can lead to tremendous production budget saving. There are no scripts in Korean movie industry that have the same format. This fact led to huge loss of production budget. The purpose of this paper is to compare Korean screenplay format to Hollywood’s to find the necessity of screenplay format standardization and to build a standardization that’s suitable for Korean film industry by examining past trials of screenplay format standardization.