How do I write a thought provoking movie script or book?
Do you have a story to tell?Any experience?Yes, then write it down. Don’t go for lengthy paragraphs. Just go for some lines, write an idea and draft it properly. Then, make connections between different aspects of your story and reason out everything from it.Each and every scene has something to say about it. Talk to your friends regarding the subject, talk to some random people and get their ideas. Every person has got something to say and a story to tell.Reasoning is very important.If no, then go and dig deep into your experiences and start thinking about your that ONE story.You know how a writer or director gets his/her break?With powerful script and great storytelling.Work on your storytelling skills as well. They would go long with you.Till now, I’ve written around 20 scripts and only 1 of them got its break. Yes, it happens. You have to suffer a lot. You have to think a lot. You have to be creative. You have to fail a lot. And i mean A LOT.Till now I’ve done 160+ movie trailers and behind those successful trailers, there are more than 2 years of relentless hard work and 300+ editing videos. Yes, I’ve made around 300+ random videos before i started working in the industry.This same goes for the script writing. You will clear 40–50 rough drafts and eventually come out with 5 of them. And, 1 out 5 would become your first movie.Keep writing and keep thinking about the ideas. Writing is easy but the latter part is most difficult.Because, originality matters!
Writing Anime/Manga Script?
Before you start a story, you should think about the place, the time, what kind of genre (romance, shounen, shoujo, 'slice of life', etc.). Once you have that settled, you'll have to start creating characters. A main character, the protagonist, and a side character, the antagonist. Aside of those two, you can create as many characters as you want to, but that's up to you. But the two are neccesary. When you're creating your protagonist, just make a small character sheet, with the age, clothes, colours, maybe hobbies, 'abnormalities', stuff like that. Same goes for the antagonist. Describe as MANY things as you can - the town, the era, the atmosphere - everything. It will only make it easier for you when you're starting your story later on, because you need a basis. The next step is to come up with a situation. It can be anything, depending on what you chose as your genre. Basically you have everything settled now, so you can start your storyline. Don't rush, everytime you created - let's say - a chapter, you should read it over a few times, and see, and be sure to be fully satisfied with it, otherwise you will regret it in the end. Anime and manga has been my interest for years now, and I also draw. I've got an art page where you can see all of my drawings. (See source) Maybe you can get a little inspirated and motivated if you look at them. There are also a lot of other anime artists, so you can just look around freely to see what others are up to. I hope this will help you out a little ^ w ^ Oh, and don't worry about your drawing skills - they will definitely improve as you get older, if you practise. You're still young, and you're on your way.
Thoughts on script/text tattoos?
I'm very curious as I'm considering getting a short phrase tattooed myself. I have some other tattoos that are images/symbols and I've been more partial to getting images versus text because the art can express just as much, if not more, than words can. As an artist myself, though not a tattoo artist, I have taken some of my favorite quotes that I had wanted to get tattooed and instead transformed the essence of it into a drawing that was more personalized to me. However, for this specific quote, I've found myself in the opposite dilemma. Transforming this quote into an image might weaken its meaning- a meaning that is very personal and profound to me. On top of that, the person to whom the quote belongs to is a lesser known but very bada$$ and talented female queer poet that I adore. I feel that transforming the quote into an image loses some of its integrity and character of the author herself. The entire quote is: "We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise." -Natalie Clifford Barney My tattoo would simply be: "What they call our sins are our gods" in all-caps, italicized, times new roman font. likely to be pretty big so it can age well. But I'm feeling conflicted! Especially as when I do more research on text tattoos and they seem to be looked down upon. Really second-guessing whether I should get it at all... Thoughts/advice?
Any dramatic script/story ideas?
To make it more interesting i would write that the dad commits suicide and jonah must carry on with his life. Because that will shock the listeners.
Script writing advice: rock album to rock opera?
I was listening to an album I purchased recently and really started to pick up on the storyline and symbolism within the lyrics and sound. Then I started thinking about The Who's "Tommy" and the recent proposal to turn Green Day's "American Idiot" into a musical (and of course ABBA's "Mamma Mia!"). Eventually these thoughts presented me with the idea of scripting out a rock opera for one of my favorite albums. I have a little background in poetic/song writing, musical theater and stage production, but not so much in script writing...so now to my questions: 1. Does anyone know of any other album-to-stage productions? 2. Does anyone have advice on the gradual inclusion of songs into a story? This may be the secret of all good musicals...but...yeah, build up is key. People really don't randomly burst into song, and a musical is crap with this sort of randomness. 3. Any other advice?
When writing film scripts, is "on the nose" dialogue really that bad?
It's not that it necessarily sounds stupid, people express emotions straight up, especially extreme ones (ie. I hate you! I love you.) However, a common mistake screenwriters make is to have characters express there thoughts directly. In most cases, this leads to boring dialogue with no subtext to it. Below is a scene which is "on the nose". Following is the same dialogue courtesy of Tarantino. (I just grabbed a random bit of text, it's most certainly not the best example.) ON THE NOSE: BUTCH Don't worry about me. I'll take your car. I'll be back soon. FABIAN Don't go. BUTCH I have to go. Can you trust that I'll return shortly? FABIAN I trust you. --------------------------------------... TARANTINO: BUTCH Here's some money. Go on, get those pancakes, have a nice breakfast. I'll take your Honda. Be back before you can say "blueberry pie". FABIAN Blueberry pie. BUTCH Maybe not that fast. But pretty fast, okay? FABIAN Okay. No, granted, I'm reading into the "okay"'s in an actor sort of interpretation. It's not like that part is particularly profound. However, more to the point, is the first set of dialogue and how clunky it is. And actor could bring that dialogue to life, but it in the end will not be interesting to the listener. Again, I'm sure I could have grabbed some dialogue with better subtext, but well, I've got to get back to my writing. Hope this helped.