I advise renting a couple of movies you really enjoy and counting the scenes. Great writers say there are 40-60 scenes in a movie. STEP 5 (Monday, Week 2): Now let’s get organized for your first draft. You have now written your first treatment. Take it, along with $20, to the Writer’s Guild of America and register it. Make each a small paragraph, in chronological order, and fill in the bottom half of page 1, all of page 2, and the top half of page 3. These are the “Oh-Shits” and the “Uh-Ohs”.Ĭome up with 4-6 of these.
WHAT ARE SOME GOOD SCRIPT TITLES MOVIE
There are about 4-6 points in a movie about 15-20 minutes apart, after Act I, where things seem to be advancing and then dramatically fall apart. I call them the “Oh-Shits” and the “Uh-Ohs”. Writing instructors call these plot points. So let’s fill up the middle with interesting events. Writing instructors claim that the middle (AKA: Act II) is where most stories fall apart. So now you are going to fill in the bottom half of page 1, all of page 2, and the top half of page 3 with your middle. It’s the big middle that is what all storytelling is about. STEP 4C (Sunday, Week 2): Now let’s write the big middle. This should be no more than 1-2 paragraphs and occupy the bottom half of page 3. You should, hopefully, know how your movie ends. STEP 4B (Saturday, Week 1): Now go to page 3 and write the ending of your movie. Remember, no more than one paragraph covering half of page 1. Describing who’s in the story, what’s happening, where it’s happening, when it’s happening, why it’s happening and how it’s happening. On the first half of page 1, in double-spaced typing, write the 5 W’s and 1 H. STEP 4A (Friday, Week 1): Write one paragraph, 3-4 long, run-on (if needed) sentences. Call page 1 “The Beginning,” page 2 “The Middle,” and page 3 “The End.” Haven’t you heard that 20 times by now? So take 3 pieces of blank paper. They have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Treatments are typed double space so you’re really only going to write 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 pages. So let’s start with writing a 3-5 page treatment.
I have heard as short as 3-5 pages and as long as 30-50 pages. No one knows how many pages a treatment should be. STEP 4 (Thursday, Week 1): Write the treatment. Also, if you can’t get the story down to 15-25 words, there can’t be “word of mouth.”
WHAT ARE SOME GOOD SCRIPT TITLES TV
If it can’t fit into TV Guide then how is anyone going to know to turn the TV onto your movie some night. Condense your story into 15-25 words (protagonist, antagonist, or good guy/bad guy, situation, and problem) so that it can fit into TV Guide. STEP 3 (Wednesday, Week 1): Write 15-25 words. Thus, when you go to write your script you will always be reminded to keep it flowing through the 5-9 word theme. Next, cut it out and scotch tape it onto your keyboard or typewriter or screen.
Squeeze it into 5-9 words (AKA: “men are truly evil beings,” or “boys & girls can’t be buddies because of sex,” or “siblings are born to be rivals,” etc.) and type it. This is a 300 percent increase in writing over yesterday but I know you can handle it. STEP 2 (Tuesday, Week 1): Write 5-9 words. STEP 1 (Monday, Week 1): Write 1-3 words. So stop being overwhelmed by the blank page. The point is that it is now written and, if you truly have talent as a writer, you can now do the re-write and make it great. Stop worrying that your first draft will be great. But first things first and the first thing is the first draft. I’m sure that Will wrote and then re-wrote and re-wrote and re-wrote. Now comes the second saying, “Nothing is written, it’s re-written.” Shakespeare didn’t magically pick up a quill and Macbeth flowed out. However, your financial situation may dictate that you must write it yourself. If you are being paid to think then that’s a really good lifestyle and I think you should continue it. The first is, “Writers write and thinkers think.” The point being if you want to be a writer you must actually move your fingers. First you must understand the two sayings for writers.
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