Screenwriting

I started a thread like this a while back, but apparently its gone now, so I'm gonna start it again.

Any and all tropers who are also screenwriters, get your asses in here!

edited 9th Jan '11 10:13:56 AM by tilitzd

WOOT! I'M HERE!

Okay, now what?

I'm a wannabe screenwriter.

I've written some plays, but they were crappy.

Discussion topic: Which type of writing do you prefer, script or prose, and why?

i suppose now you share your ideas...

I've never actually seriously tried prose, so I wouldn't know. I mean to at some point though.

Well, I've already got a good opening for my move The Gals Of Galaday. The sequence fades into a near silent space flight that starts at earth and reaches out to the stars. That's where most of the title credits go by. The main title doesn't appear until a large, disc shaped planet saws through a spherical planet. Eventually, the camera descends onto a planet that appears to be missing half its surface. Travelling down even further, the camera enters the window of a suburban house before stopping on Kat, the heroine of the story. At the moment she's filling out job applications. Then her cell phone rings.

I need to try prose for my college application's portfolio (but I have writers block as of now, gah!), since its a requirement if you're submitting poetry. But screenwriting comes easier to me, I'm just not that well trained in it. I'm thinking about sending a play I co-wrote about a teenage serial killer who rids her victims in interesting ways because she has jealousy issues, to say the least. I feel like it can be a legitimate and fully-fledged screenplay if I put forth the time and effort needed to revamp it and rid all of the narm I had written.

Do you have this written down, or just conceptualized so far?

Do you have a draft finished? I've always personally found that its easier to make progress when I have something down and I'm just editing as opposed to when I'm writing totally new material. So if you do have a draft, the hardest part is over.

edited 9th Jan '11 9:36:59 PM by tilitzd

Screenwriter (in training)

I just have random scenes made out. I know what I want, I just don't know how to connect the major events.

I used to get really lost when I tried writing some of my older, unfinished ideas. I found that writing an outline is really clutch, and helps move past those kinds of problems. It would also probably help a lot to read about the structure of a screenplay (like what happens in act I, in act II, act breaks, how long an average script is, etc etc).

Yeah, I have a draft. Twelve pages long. I have to condense it a little for my portfolio (there's a ten page limit), but it can easily be expanded as a fully-fledged screenplay.