I write scripts and even as I get better at it over time (not so much now, but there was a big improvements in the first few months at least), there are still some things that are hard to portray, which I think is a shame.

Things like:

• Feeling someone's physical presence near you - them being around you, in the room with you, coming closer to you, being in a certain proportion to your own size.

• Eye contact, getting "the look", breathing, the "unsaid things" like tension.

• Being next to someone intimately. Not just feeling someone's boner or ass or whatever it is, but knowing they are there relaxing or trying to sleep or finally taking the full weight of the day off their backs and "existing without thinking". Maybe coupled with idly playing with the other person's hair or laying against their chest or back or something like that.

Most of the things that go on in an audio have to be vocalized by the performer, or made clear through sound effects. The subtle things can be made unsubtle by describing them, or made to sound more like reciting a poem that are about listing those things. In a way, the subtle way of doing them may be just a sigh of contentment or the little noise you might make as you curl up to someone, or a little growl of appreciation or a little extra breath to draw in someone's scent or something.

Sex and intimacy and all of what we do - it's a multimedia experience, to put it mildly. I think we still do a better job of producing a crisper and truer to life sound than the 500% overamplified bass of some video porn clips, if that makes any sense.

I don't know what to really do about it, but it's worth noting both the strengths and the limits of scripts and script writing (and to some degree the "vocalizing" it prescribes). It is good at many things, but don't forget the many other things that would also be there but that are hard to represent.

What's your favorite subtle (or hard to represent) thing to think about, or that you have gotten across in a script or audio?