I write for fun. I try to learn about filmmaking too. I also try to meet creative people with whom I can exchange help on projects, knowledge, and experience.
I always have that image in my mind that working for million dollar platforms will have your work destroyed in a blink of an eye. But I also understand that a script for a film is not your first draft, that is just the beginning because of all the arts involved in telling the story.
But getting stuck because of finance is proving that money speaks louder than words. But don't we do the opposite writing?
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You’re writing for fun! Fantastic because that’s really the excitement in it for most of us. But there is a structure to screenwriting. It’s there not only for its own sake but it’s there to help you develop and bring out the story in such a way that it will be appreciated by an audience told through film. I found reading “Save the Cat” by Blake Snyder was a simple book that put it all together for me. A friend of mine said I should read it because Paul Haggis - Million Dollar Baby - advised him to read it. Stay in touch!
I normally base my structures on the 8 point arc. It is straightforward for me when writing short stories. I guess that in longer stories you can loop that into a substructure of a main 8 point arc to make characters grow.
I know there is also the type of narration to have in mind when setting it all up. Anyway, I love to learn and apply all those things!
Thanks for the suggestion! I going to look for that book. I'll get back to you once I've read it! One I still read is "Story" from Robert Mckee. It really inspires me to not forget what is important telling a story!
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Watts’ ‘Eight Point Arc’ and the the Greek ‘three act play’ are often the basis of the approach to writing a novel, I think. I’ve had little or no experience in the former. So don’t Left me lead you astray if it’s a novel you wish to write. ‘Save the Cat’ is all about screenplay and films!