How to Write a Screenplay in 3 Days - Part1

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[RCM037224]

I think there's an element of the script that needs to be chaotic and unpredictable to the writer. Knowing from the outset exactly how it's all going to go down into the endgame is... discouraging.

[cristianceron1989]

@SteezeWizard99 sorry If i understand wrong about having detailed info in your screenplay, you're right about that, but in the end, all those "research" or "thinking" will show itself in the screenplay if you did it. Without that, your screenplay will be bland and not realistic (realistic means if it's coherent and can exist, not just a copy paste from real life).

[cristianceron1989]

@SteezeWizard99 normal people is boring and more than 90% of real life people would make a very bad character. Drama is conflict, is an abstraction from real life. It takes what is interesting (conflict, how characters react in pressure) and forgets what is boring.

Look at Romeo and Juliet, they're excelent characters but neither of them can be real.

[cristianceron1989]

@SteezeWizard99 Can you use your imagination to write about... let's say an story of the pre-renaissance time in the orthodox church of Greece?

Or how about a the civil war in Colombia in the first half of the last century? Or the ruanda genocide?, or the Vietnam Dictatorship?

No, without research your brain take stuff from what it knows, in this case pop culture. Characters are not people, people in real life doesn't seek conflict and allways want to settle (in most cases) with dialoge.

[cristianceron1989]

@SteezeWizard99 it doesn't matter how it's called. I can tell you, there's like a million things a writer should be keeping track when writing, things like It's well detailed a character?, Is the historical background correct?, is this having the three types of conflict (internal-interpersonal-extern­al), is having a correct irony and when? (irony in the premise, the situation and the evolution of the story). without research the story becomes cliche.

[SteezeWizard99]

@cristianceron1989 That's actually called thinking, not research. There's no need to write it if you have it in your head. And I was talking about detailed descriptions IN your screenplay. The better writers use their imagination and don't need to write down every little thing because their characters are people and a good writer needs to be able to understand people well.

[cristianceron1989]

@clergame sorry to burst your bubble, but that's a concept, neither an idea, and it sucks because doesn't have a developed character neither human conflict (clash of personalities) nor It's designed around acts or arcs. It's like calling an dabble of a drawing made by a five year old an ilustration that can be sold to profetionals.

Study first, the better stories are centered around characters that clash and are in danger of something. Read Robert mckee book about screenplay.

[cristianceron1989]

@SteezeWizard99 I read sometime ago that one of the master before writing one page of the script, he used to write 20 pages for each character, what did he write?, well, his biography, his childhood, his wishes, his failures, his love interest during his life, maybe some little story of his fathers and grandpa's, the city and country story, even the world.

That is called research, and the better writers does that. Why I know that, because I also do it (although I'm just learning).

[SteezeWizard99]

@PsychoPonies I'm in high school too and I've found that you really don't need really detailed descriptions, at least not right away, because after doing those descriptions your creativity may begin to wane. As for childish dialogue I would need an example of what it is, but if you're writing about people like you or that act like children then that dialogue could work. Just watch lots of different films. Try finding the screenplay to John Cassavetes A Woman Under the Influence.

[Screenplay12]

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