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SCREENPLAY
In my portfolio I have ready to deliver three screenplays. It's a trilogy, but every movie is independent from each other and can be produced singularly. The name of the movies are "Alice", "Alison" and "April". They are drama movies set in hospital. Get in touch with me so I can pitch my works!
I always develop new ideas into writings, so now I'm working to new screenplays.
Since I like movies very much, I wanted to learn something about this world. Learn the skills of screenwriting was spontaneous. I know that be a director would be cooler, but the idea of building the story to me was more enthusiastic. So, I've read a lot of resources about screenplay crafting.
A movie contains three acts: the first act is the setup of the story. If this section is not well developed, the audience can lose interest in watching the entire movie. The second act is the confrontation, where the main character encounters obstacle after obstacle that keeps him/her to achieving his /her dramatic need. The third act is the resolution, when the main character, the hero, can achieve his/her goal.
At the beginning of the movie, you must establish the subject of the movie. What is this movie about? Racism, superheroes or so on. Not establishing the subject in the screenplay, it will fall apart along the pages.
Defining the characters and establish the hero is the next step. The hero has his own goals and needs, but the movie will be a net, a set of characters, where every character will help the hero moving forward and doing the choices he/she must take to accomplishes his/her goal.
Setting up the story is the first need of a screenplay. In the first 10 pages the audience must know who the main character is, what the dramatic premise is, what the story is about and the dramatic situation – the circumstances surrounding the action.
The character will have his/her arc. Character arc and the plot are integrated. They cannot be separated, since the three acts of the story correspond to the three stages of the hero motivation.
A brief introduction to the Plot Point: it's any incident, episode or event that hooks into the action and spins it around another direction. It moves the story forward.
Sources for this section are: Syd Field - "The Foundation of Screenplay" and K M Weiland - "Creating Character Arcs".
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