‘If you’re an aspiring screenwriter, you must watch movies, but you need to do more than that. You must also read movies as well. If you want to be a screenwriter, you need to watch every movie twice and then read the screenplay. The reason for this is simple. The first time you watch a […]
It’s easy to find examples of great screenplays. “Citizen Kane,” “Casablanca,” “The Godfather.” However, it’s also easy to find bad movies too. Since you can learn what not to do by studying bad movies, here’s an analysis of “G-Force,” a good example of a bad movie. Most screenwriting books focus on analyzing great screenplays to […]
What you see in a movie isn’t what was written. In fact, movies often cut out scenes that were written and filmed, but later deemed unnecessary. Sometimes this is true and the movie doesn’t suffer from the omission, but sometimes this missing scene wrecks the entire story. This is what you can do to minimize […]
Every movie tells a story and every story follows a basic structure known as the three Act structure. By understanding this basic structure, you can shape your idea into a basic story. Almost everyone can agree on a good story when they see it, but how do you create a good story in the first […]
A movie tells a story visually. Where many movies fail is when they forget this basic idea and rely too much on telling rather than showing. Here’s how to recognize this problem in your own screenplay. “The Shining” is considered a classic horror film that relies less on bloody action and more on horror, which […]