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If you're reading this and you haven't competed a feature length screenplay yet, you are still in Munchkin land. By no means does this equate to you being a bad person (or small in stature for that matter). You can live quite happily in the Land of Oz for a very long time. But if you're serious about becoming a professional writer, only when you have completed the first draft of your first screenplay does your journey begin. Up until that moment, everything is still just a fantasy, but when you print out that first script, you have done it. It's tangible. You are now…

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Drama film is a genre that relies on the emotional and relational development of realistic characters. While Drama film relies heavily on this kind of development, dramatic themes play a large role in the plot as well. Often, these dramatic themes are taken from intense, real life issues. Whether heroes or heroines are facing a conflict from the outside or a conflict within themselves, Drama film aims to tell an honest story of human struggles.

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