What is a screenplay?
A screenplay is a totally different art form from writing a novel or a play. In a novel the story usually goes on in the main characters head where they tell about their inner thoughts, ambitions motives and describe what they're doing. In a play the audience is the fourth wall and they get to eavesdrop the life of the characters stories on stage.
An actual screenplay is a visual medium of where the storyline is dramatised. It's told with images, in dialogue, and description and in the context of a dramatic structure. A screenplay is about a person, persons, a place or places doing their thing. All screenplays follow this structure; a character doing their thing is them taking action. All screenplays have three pieces; a beginning, a middle and an end.
When you have all the pieces the structure of the story is complete. They don't necessarily have to be in the same order but without any of those parts, the story is no longer a story, it's incomplete.
A paradigm is a word for a kind of structure. You have the structure of a table, for instance, a top and at least 3 legs. Within that paradigm you can make a wide, low, high, narrow, skewed, round, square or glass table. A screenplay has a certain paradigm, a paradigm of a dramatic structure, a model or a conceptual scheme.
There are three dramatic acts in a story. The first act is the beginning and setup, and usually includes a turning point or plot twist that leads to act two, confrontation. Act two is the middle of a story and usually includes a character having a problem and them trying to solve it. In the end of act two there usually is another plot twist or turning point which leads to the end of the story, the third act and end, the resolution of the confrontation.
Aristotle defines the three parts as: equilibrium (peace and balance) disequilibrium (disruption of peace or balance) and new equilibrium (resolution of disruption)
A feature length screenplay is usually between 110 and 120 pages where one page equals one minute of screentime. The setup in a feature length screenplay is usually around 30 pages long. The setup needs to establish characters, their relationships to each other and the setting and its circumstances.
That is a quarter of the film. The first 10 pages are the most important because the audience usually determines if they like or dislike a film. Therefore, you have to explain the premise and introduce something that interests the viewer to continue watching the rest.
Story draft:
Perellia, a 18 year old girl leaves the Philippines to seek happiness and education in Missouri, USA. Barely knowing any English she explains how it feels to move to a new place and the contrasts. She meets mysteriously nice Angie that shows her around and helps her settle down. Perellia trusts her but finds out she scammed her and took all her tuition money. Barely knowing English, she travels America to find Angie and get her money back with a deadline since colle starts in 2 weeks using her Philippine wit.
An actual screenplay is a visual medium of where the storyline is dramatised. It's told with images, in dialogue, and description and in the context of a dramatic structure. A screenplay is about a person, persons, a place or places doing their thing. All screenplays follow this structure; a character doing their thing is them taking action. All screenplays have three pieces; a beginning, a middle and an end.
When you have all the pieces the structure of the story is complete. They don't necessarily have to be in the same order but without any of those parts, the story is no longer a story, it's incomplete.
A paradigm is a word for a kind of structure. You have the structure of a table, for instance, a top and at least 3 legs. Within that paradigm you can make a wide, low, high, narrow, skewed, round, square or glass table. A screenplay has a certain paradigm, a paradigm of a dramatic structure, a model or a conceptual scheme.
There are three dramatic acts in a story. The first act is the beginning and setup, and usually includes a turning point or plot twist that leads to act two, confrontation. Act two is the middle of a story and usually includes a character having a problem and them trying to solve it. In the end of act two there usually is another plot twist or turning point which leads to the end of the story, the third act and end, the resolution of the confrontation.
Aristotle defines the three parts as: equilibrium (peace and balance) disequilibrium (disruption of peace or balance) and new equilibrium (resolution of disruption)
A feature length screenplay is usually between 110 and 120 pages where one page equals one minute of screentime. The setup in a feature length screenplay is usually around 30 pages long. The setup needs to establish characters, their relationships to each other and the setting and its circumstances.
That is a quarter of the film. The first 10 pages are the most important because the audience usually determines if they like or dislike a film. Therefore, you have to explain the premise and introduce something that interests the viewer to continue watching the rest.
Story draft:
Perellia, a 18 year old girl leaves the Philippines to seek happiness and education in Missouri, USA. Barely knowing any English she explains how it feels to move to a new place and the contrasts. She meets mysteriously nice Angie that shows her around and helps her settle down. Perellia trusts her but finds out she scammed her and took all her tuition money. Barely knowing English, she travels America to find Angie and get her money back with a deadline since colle starts in 2 weeks using her Philippine wit.
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