Screen Writting with Steve Coombes

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Process of screen writing;
  • Screen writing is the beginning and end of Television
  • 100'000 thousand words in a novel
  • 12'000 thousand words in a Script - An hour of TV (half hour 6'000 words)
  • 10 minute short film 2'000 words - make all of them count 
  • Adjectives do nothing for you!
  • Verbs do things, verbs are something happening adjectives are just description.
Pitch is only a page
Log line is a pitch of a pitch - a summary of a sentence of what the film is going to be. 
Bibles are an overview of the characters, background research etc
Treatment- scene by scene
Draft, Shooting Script and then you need a green light 
Film and TV is changing very fast

ACTORS ARE MAGIC! 

Structure
Golden rules for structure in a screen play
  • A screenplay is any visual drama
  • It is a proposal for a film and TV show
  • A screenplay is a hypothesis that we need to taste
  • Characters need to come to life in your screenplay
  • Make the screenplay come to life in your head
  • Structure always needs to be there
  • Does my audience need to know this information?
  • Needs to be on need to know basis
  • President is the audience - TELL them what they NEED to know! 
  • keep it on that basis - show don't tell - see it in action 
  • Joke - Setup, Distract, and SHOOT 
  • Know your ending! Start, Middle are flexible 
  • The ending needs to be known - something to aim for

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