Do this, don’t do that, definitely don’t do THAT – all of that goes out the window. Over time, as I read more and more screenplays, I began to understand the ebb and flow, the rhyme and reason.As authors, most of the rules we’re taught go out the window when writing a script. It was unlike anything I’d ever seen before, and it made absolutely no sense to me.
Even though I was an avid reader, I thought I was looking at a foreign document. FORMATWhen I was a kid, my uncle showed me the script for Casablanca.
His new Studio Networking and Screenwriting Conference is a weekend event geared towards helping writers learn how to write screenplays and get direct access to producers, agents, managers, and other professional writers. However the thought pops into your mind, as a writer, every now and again, a little visual voice in the back of our heads say “Hey! Have I got a movie for you!”So, for all you writers out there who have even a passing interest in writing a screenplay, this article is the A to Z guide to helping you turn your usual beautiful prose into a great script for a film.Guest column by Michael Ferris.Ī former Hollywood Lit Manager, Michael started as a way to help other writers get their foot in the door and has helped several writers sell their scripts (like Travis Beacham of PACIFIC RIM) and set up projects with producers like Academy Award Winner Arnold Kopelson. Or we see a story in a newspaper and think “that would make a great movie!”. We walk out of a movie theater thinking “I could have written something better than that!”.
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