If you are just about to embark on a screenwriting adventure, it’s crucial to know the right screenplay structure. The script structure for film and TV is very different to theatre screenplay. If you send your finished manuscript in the wrong format to anyone in the film/TV industry, it will be instantly dismissed for looking…
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How to Build/Create Your Character’s Bible?
Building a characters’ bible is always optional and not an essential element of the screenwriting process that could ever stop you from getting started on your script. Not every screenwriter creates the characters’ bible, just like not every screenwriter works with an outline or a treatment. All those screenwriting tools can speed up the writing…
Until There Is Drama, There Is No Film
For the story to work dramatically, all the screenplay elements (stakes, external antagonist or obstacles, intimate opponent, actions the characters take or avoid taking) need to be visible for the audience from the start of the film. The only storytelling element that can be slightly delayed is the hook. But the hook still shouldn’t be…
Let’s Talk About Titles
The title is one of the most crucial elements of your screenplay. There are entire books and blogs devoted to creating and coming up with mind-blowing titles. In our daily life, attractive and catchy titles increase the odds of us picking up a book, reading an article, or watching a video. Unfortunately, nowadays, people don’t…
How to Come up With a Hook for Your Screenplay?
For a reader, filmmaker, producer or an agent to become interested in your screenplay, you need to find a “magical” way to grab their attention. In reality, no one will devote even five minutes of their time to your project if their interest hasn’t been tickled. And, the easiest and the fastest way to do…
What Is a Screenplay?
The screenplay has a very different structure to the structure authors use for writing books. The script for a fiction film (documentarians work in their ways and don’t always work from a script while making a documentary) is divided into scenes, which move the action from one location to another. Change of scene happens every…
How Do I Write My Scripts?
1. I have my initial idea. I don’t need to know what is going to happen from the beginning to the end. I just have an idea and play around with it in my head. 2. I search for my characters’ names around me and inside me and come up with some necessary information. I…
How to Breakdown Your Script?
Script breakdown is needed to do your budget correctly; to know how many cast & crew members you need or what props and costumes each scene will require. It is done to make the director and his creative team, as well as producers, live easier. When I’m a director of the project, I sit down…
How To Write a Film Script?
When writing a film script, you should start by picturing the film critic, the person who is going to read and review the script first of all. Winning over a critic is your first step to success. It will be up to them to decide whether what you have written is notable enough to get…
How to Write a Film Script?
There are many good books and websites on scriptwriting, so I am going to be very brief on that subject. And please do research your local bookstore or a library for the books on the subject. This is how I write my scripts, so I believe that everyone has to find his way of working…