HOW TO WRITE BETTER SCENE OPENINGS
To continue our theme of learning from online screenwriting mentors, we are going to attend a screenwriting lesson from Mr. John August himself. Yes, you'll see him work, hear him speak, we'll get first-hand, over the shoulder screenwriting tutelage from none other than our elected professor. And it's all free, most paying students don't even get that opportunity.
This will all take place thanks to John's "Scriptcasting" invention, in which we will watch him work on a script in "Final Draft", the screenwriting program. The kicker is, for all the posts you can read from a mentor, actually hearing them speak their thoughts and seeing them work takes the whole thing to another level. Click to open in a new window.
"WRITING BETTER SCENE OPENINGS" Scriptcast by JOHN AUGUST
He turns a generic, basically boring scene into one worth reading. Of special interest are the tips on:
*character traits
*challenge, or conflict
*dialogue flow
*actions
*avoiding over-directing
*moving the story forward
Take one of your scenes and dissect it. Does it have a purpose in the script, or is it filler? Can you refine it? Try implementing some of his rewriting methods to make your scene and characters shine.
Have a good write!
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I try to read any an all screenwriting tutorials I can.
ReplyDeleteThe only problem is that halfway through I get bored and start to think about sandwiches...