First rule of thumb when writing a screenplay is to write about things you know or have experienced yourself.
Unfortunately, when I give that advice to aspiring writers, they often say something like, "But I live an ordinary life. Nothing exciting ever happens to me."
Well, guess what! Writing is taking an 'ordinary' event and expressing it in an 'extra-ordinary' way through your eyes with your emotional perspective. Only you can do that. You see, it's not the story that's exciting. It's in the way you tell it that makes it so.
Just give people insight into a slice of life, in this case, your life based on your experiences. They may find it interesting.
In this Vlog, I give you a brief example of how I can take the events in my life over the last two weeks and lay it out into a draft 'beat sheet' for a screenplay.
Enjoy.
Wow, One should learn the art of creation from every ordinary moment from you. Truly a big fan of you now.
Great information as always Brian! Best of luck with the operation, I look forward to your next vlog!
Loads of great words of wisdom in there! Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge with us all! Looking forward to read and hear more from you. Namaste :)
For those of us who have no opportunity to take a class in screen writing, your guide is excellent. Watching now about half way though.
This seems like great information and I'm sure it will be useful to a number of people here.
Thank you for this great information!
Excellent information.. thanks for sharing it...
Very impressive my friend!
First, best wishes on staying healthy and out of that hospital. Second, it's interesting to see how you took a real-life event and sketched it into a script outline in a quarter of an hour. I'll look into the Snyder book that you recommended.