Posts Tagged ‘Story’

When creating your characters, they should each have a specific role and serve a purpose in telling your story.  There’s more to adding characters than giving them lines.  (See the article on Creating New Characters for further explanation.)  Every lead and supporting character should fall into one or more of these archetypal categories:  Archetypes Hero: admirable, likeable, lead to story [...]

I think the worst feedback you can get aside from “I liked it” is “Sure, there are some problems, but ‘it’s just a movie’”.  You should never excuse illogical or unrealistic scenarios simply because ‘it’s only a movie’. I recently watched several action movies and found I most enjoyed the films that were realistic or [...]

Movies give the impression that scripts are comprised mostly of dialogue, but film and TV are audio-visual media; what you put on the page should be what we will see on the screen.  Beginning writers often make one of two mistakes: too much or too little description.  The problem of too much description We all think every minor detail [...]

Many new screenwriters are tempted to add sex, nudity and foul language to their script thinking it makes it edgy, controversial or more interesting.  These things will never make a script more interesting.  The best thing you can do for your script is to avoid these.  Here’s why. No filmmaker wants a rating over PG.  An [...]

By now you have the series act breaks, story lines and story arc.  You’re not done yet!  You need to break down each act into scenes and note what happens when.  If you’re thinking, “I already noted what happens when while looking at the story arc”, you may have noted the major plot points for [...]