As Coco Chanel said (requoted by Sigourney Weaver’s character in Working Girl): “Dress shabbily, they notice the dress; Dress impeccably, they notice the woman.” Same applies to your script.
Nine Things Writers Should Know About AFF – You still have a couple of days to refine and polish your script into a potential winner and submit it to the final deadline on June 1.
Giving and receiving notes is one of the easiest and fastest ways to improve your craft. And script swaps are free.
If you’re a beginning screenwriter, everything feels a bit foreign. Especially at first. But a scene is a scene, right? Put them together and you have a script. Well… Maybe not.
By Guest Blogger Jim Kalergis – “The simplicity of screenplay form is that we write what the audience will see on screen and hear from the theater sound system, in the order they will see and hear it. We do so in the expectation and hope that by so doing, the reader will experience what they’re reading as a “mind movie.”
If you want to concentrate on character (or plot), don’t make the mistake of ignoring the other.
A lot of feature screenplays have a good “save the cat” moment. But what is that, exactly?
Storytellers worldwide know that conflict is the central ingredient in a good tale. Every screenplay needs it.
The first job of a screenwriter’s logline is to provide potential readers enough information about the story to entice them to read the script.
Be so compelling in how you reveal your inciting incident that there isn’t a reader in the world who is too jaded to appreciate your unique hook.
