Jason 4Writing the Script
October 12th 2006 20:26
Everything starts with an idea. A concept. You take your messy mind and you try to put it to use. You write down that idea. And somehow it does not seem as grand as you dreamt.
So you rewrite it. And you rewrite it again. You think visually. What would appeal to an audience watching my film?
I have no idea. But I have watched films ever since I knew myself. And there's that feeling. Similar to the instinct of a novelist, you can't be rigid, something of you goes into that work.
But a sreenplay is not a novel. So you read other people's screenplays. You laugh and you reconstruct the film in your mind and you begin to process exactly how you would shoot the Goddamn film if you were the director.
Can you really deliver any better than the blokes from Hollywood? You feel fearful because already you can be underestimated. It's your first film and the next mentor for writing and directing your script does not live in your little island or is so busy how can a pipsqeak like you get his/her attention.
So you write anyway and give it a try. You prepare yourself and read as much as you can and talk to various people working in TV. You beg to work voluntary on various video productions. You observe what the director does, what the director of photography does.
You humble yourself and pray to gather that kind of strength and aggressiveness, charm and luck to one day bear that kind of pressure as a filmmaker. You say f*&% it and jump anyway and stick to it anyway when in the middle of the script that ill confidence of writer's block steps in.
Again you say f*&% and continue and pad up that section of the script with some bullshit. Then when you finally finished and come back to the bullshit part, just then you may realize that that bullshit can fly.
You let other people disect it. And you rewite. You rewrite it again. And then you do it again this not for you but for everyone else, until you have something that slightly resembles a timeless story.
That's the best way I believe you can write a script.
So you rewrite it. And you rewrite it again. You think visually. What would appeal to an audience watching my film?
I have no idea. But I have watched films ever since I knew myself. And there's that feeling. Similar to the instinct of a novelist, you can't be rigid, something of you goes into that work.
But a sreenplay is not a novel. So you read other people's screenplays. You laugh and you reconstruct the film in your mind and you begin to process exactly how you would shoot the Goddamn film if you were the director.
Can you really deliver any better than the blokes from Hollywood? You feel fearful because already you can be underestimated. It's your first film and the next mentor for writing and directing your script does not live in your little island or is so busy how can a pipsqeak like you get his/her attention.
So you write anyway and give it a try. You prepare yourself and read as much as you can and talk to various people working in TV. You beg to work voluntary on various video productions. You observe what the director does, what the director of photography does.
You humble yourself and pray to gather that kind of strength and aggressiveness, charm and luck to one day bear that kind of pressure as a filmmaker. You say f*&% it and jump anyway and stick to it anyway when in the middle of the script that ill confidence of writer's block steps in.
Again you say f*&% and continue and pad up that section of the script with some bullshit. Then when you finally finished and come back to the bullshit part, just then you may realize that that bullshit can fly.
You let other people disect it. And you rewite. You rewrite it again. And then you do it again this not for you but for everyone else, until you have something that slightly resembles a timeless story.
That's the best way I believe you can write a script.
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Comment by Anonymous
Entertaining is good but its always better that you write an entertaining plot that come out from your gut. And then you may be on to something special.
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Comment by JohnDoe
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High expectations can lead to your writing never being satisfying. I should know I am not impressed with most of what I produce.
We all want to create a masterpiece of ageless artistic merit with every word, sadly it takes a lot of practice before you can be that good.
In the meantime do the best you can and just dont quit, ever. Write every day and try to write more and more with each passing week.
Keep up the good work.