By Adler Stone
'How to write a screenplay' is a question that plagues every aspiring screenwriter. Here are some effective techniques from the pros to help you write your screenplay effortlessly.
Most of the aspiring screenwriters start writing their screenplay the moment they have a vague outline of a story.
Unfortunately, this can be a kiss-of-death to your script. Why?
Because you will be creating such a labyrinth of confusion and re-writes that finally you will simply give up. So really how to write a script for a movie with solid foundation?
Here is how a professional screenplay writer will start Script writing technique no 1:
By testing his story idea with this Five critical questions:
1. What happens in first 30 pages of my screenplay?
2. What happens at the end of 30 pages that spins the story into completely different direction and how Hero's life goes out of balance?
3. What happens in next 60 pages after the hero's life goes out of balance?
4. What happens at the end of page 60 and how the hero is plunged into greater problem?
5. How does the problem gets solved / of doesn't?
Suppose your idea is: Bob is a son of a famous film star and he is trying to get out of his father's shadow. He struggles and finally by helping others he gets recognition.
Now pose these five questions:
What happens in first 30 pages of my screenplay?
Bob, son of a famous film star falls deeply in love with a beautiful girl in his college. Bob feels finally he has met a girl who understands his problem of being son of a film celebrity.
What happens at the end of 30 pages that spins the story into completely different direction and Hero's life goes out of balance?
Bob finds out her girlfriend befriended him to get a break in films. When Bob refuse to help, she point out that Bob is nobody without his father and will remain so for the rest of his life.
What happens in next 60 pages after the hero's life goes out of balance?
Bob changes his name and goes to a small town and starts helping drug addicts to come out the addiction. His dedication and work result in saving many lives and word of mouth spreads and he creates the biggest drug-addiction-recovery company.
What happens at the end of page 60 and how the hero is plunged into greater problem?
His celebrity father who always distanced himself from Bob, now come to Bob's city and announces in media that the entire idea was his and he pumped in money to help out his son to build this organization. Bob later finds out his father will be contesting the election the following year.
How does the problem gets solved / of doesn't?
Hundred of real people whom Bob saved record videos and flood the internet to tell the world that how Bob single-handedly created this organization to help them. Big organizations also comes up to support Bob telling media how Bob's father is trying to hi-jack the credit from his own son to win in the forthcoming election. Bob finds one of the reporters is his ex-girl friend. She apologizes to him and tells him she misunderstood him because she never tried to understand herself.
Can you see the difference? How the story is taking a shape, building a strong line of dramatic action. And more importantly these questions make you come up with Script writing milestones to keep you on the track.
Now you can change the milestones, come up with different situations and continue to do so till you have arrived at something you really like. It takes away any confusion right at the beginning and save months while keeping the quality of the screenplay high. This is one of the techniques of how to write a movie script.
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