WRITING YOUR OWN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Text deigned for the dedicated student to fully understand the principles of screenwriting in order to write an award winning script.
1. Learn how to magnify the magic of ideas, intensifying your visual imagery.
- Value the necessity of preparation as you would any highly performing craft.
- Develop your style from deep with your psyche.
- Turn fact into professional fiction.
- Protect your work. Retain complete rights to any material submitted for evaluation by registering with the Writers Guild of America or the Library of Congress, (see addresses in Chapter I.)
- Create unique characters that accent your plot.
2. SHARPENING YOUR STORY.
- Make sure your story has wire-tight suspense and strong emotional impact.
- Use dialogue with brevity yet realistically and dynamically.
- Analyze your story as to theme, moral and message, making sure it has enough originality to become significant.
- Make sure your premise has a high enough concept to carry the story through the middle.
- Learn how to use flashbacks to tighten your story, yet not stop it dead.
- Structure your story with a tight time frame for heightened emotion.
- Use dialogue with brevity yet realistically and dynamically.
Analyze your story as to theme, moral and message, making sure it has enough originality to become significant.
- Identify proper plot structures for your type of stories.
- Learn how to get an agent, how to treat them and what to expect.
- Remember, your story is as strong as your villainous force.
3. HOW TO MAKE STORIES MEMORABLE
-Tapping the writer's conscious, subconscious and superconscious levels of resource.
- Learn the difference between sentimentality and honest emotion.
- Use the plus factors of visual poetry with lyrical phrases and adages.
- Write with the fresh insight of seeing the world through the art of film.
- Make your love interest an intrinsic part of your story by making it the highest and most fulfilling of human experiences.
- Create hypnotic power over your viewers.
- Always use restraint for more effective and powerful writing.
- Action should tell most of your story, not dialogue.
- Never let your main character do something dumb (Unless for a deliberate reason) or feel sorry for himself/herself.
- Never drop in violence, sex or anything that is not necessary to your plot.
- Subjects new writers should avoid.
- Select the exact magic structure that fits your story so that you write on target and avoid those writers' blocks and endless rewrites.
4. CHARACTER STORIES
- Bring your characters to life through hardship and tragedy to the point of their growing as human beings.
- Create the forces that draw viewers to care what happens to your main character.
- Build fascinating scenes from dull ones.
- Realize people want to reach upward toward high ideals of their protagonist..
- Recognize and define the Character Story and theme.
- Let your audience feel versus think.
5. PURPOSE ACCOMPLISHMENT STORIES
- Study the guidelines of the Purpose Accomplishment story to make it an emotional powerhouse.
- Use characters that are forced to the degree that shows their attitude and worthiness.
- Decide what a protagonist primarily uses to accomplish his/her feat.
- How to involve your viewers instantly in your story and keep them spellbound until the end.
6. PURPOSE ABANDONMENT AND DECISION STORIES.
- Learn how to motivate your protagonists into crises that they can overcome ironically.
- Think powerfully so that you write powerfully.
- Give the underlying moral force just as much importance as in any other story.
- Learn how to make a decision story excruciatingly mind-boggling.
- The writer's motto: The hotter the fire, the fiercer the battle, the hungrier the beasts, the better the story.
7. ANTAGONISTS DEFEATS THEMSELVES AND SUBPLOTS
- Learn the intricate creativeness that can make the main story explosive.
- Learn to write the painful irony that all people identify with: punishment, they brought upon themselves.
- Design your subplots so they dovetail at the end to accent the theme.
- Double or triple the subplots to build a blockbuster
- Subplots are plotted stories, too.
- Subplots multiply emotional power.
- Portray today's villain as a real person; how they became the way they are and show some redeeming features.
8. THE IMPORTANCE OF SYNOPSES AND TREATMENTS
-Organizing and creating a rough outline from which each student will start to write their own full-length screenplay.
-Strengthening premise, dramatic impact and suspense.
-Theme development, illumination and fulfillment.
- Write intriguing excerpts to entice agents and producers to read your script.
- Learn the current terminology for writing visual synopses or treatments.
- Write a high concept, exciting synopsis that can insure a sale.
- Learn to characterize a person, place, event in a phrase that will spark the reader's imagination.
9. COMEDY WRITING
- Create the visual situations that intensify levity.
- Know the difference between situation comedy, musical comedy and gag writing.
- Create the romantic comedy that works every time.
- Understand the surprise of comedy stemming from drama.
- Learn the importance of time-trickery.
- To be lifelike, even tragic scenes need comedy o
l0. WORD POWER
- Make your words conjure up fascinating images in a phrase.
- Learn the powers of similes, metaphors and action verbs - and how they add vivacity.
- Learn to write close up!
- How to improve your style to make your trademark.
- Advanced Camera Techniques
- Final Polishing checkpoint.
11. LOW BUDGET FILMS & DOCUMENTARIES, ETC.
- How to write great low budget movies that sell.
- Creating a character-driven film.
- Learn to write a low budget movie that can spin-off to a TV series.
- Animation can be a sure-fire opportunity for new writers.
- The value of Docudramas; Miniseries; Night time and Day time serials.
l2. POLISHING YOUR SCRIPT TO SUBMIT
- Capture scenes with real flourish and discover the true joy of writing.
- Perfect dialogue is timed, brisk, amusing, and in character.
- Learn to contrast your characters distinctly, with the more conflict the better.
- How to improve your style to make your trademark.
- Final Polishing checkpoints.
- Capture scenes with real flourish and discover the true joy of writing.
- Become a working team with the producer and director by learning flexibility and on-set revisions.
- Learn how to pitch your story.
- Learn how to write impressive Inquiry Letters.
- Keep your story moving with artistry, making sure the dialogue carries the sound and rhythm of the spoken language.
- It is essential that something of importance depends on the outcome of your story.
- Know the important of writers integrity.
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