Documentary scripts are written to show potential investors the possible story and style of a finished program. They are also used by the producer as a way of budgeting and scheduling the production and by the director as a guide for the shoot.

The producers of Outback Supply intended to showcase the Australian landscape for an overseas audiences. In this concept script, the truck travels much further than in the final film and the characters are schematic. When the director set out to find his characters and truck, the real story was very different from that imagined in this script.

 Download an extract from the Outback Supply script (Word file, 44k)