The most important character in your screenplay is your protagonist: your hero. It's her story. We hope and fear for…
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The beginning screenwriter often uses dialogue as a crutch, thinking it is his best friend. Sure, most characters do have…
On one hand, the term action is used to describe the main story of a script – meaning a sequence…
You don’t want to explain to the audience, because that makes them observers. You want to reveal to them little…
In a movie, the camera dramatizes the process of viewing the action and bring it on screen, allowing our eyes…
Exposition is necessary as an aid to the understanding of the facts from which the story action departs. It is…
Scenes require visual movement. And scene description should include detailed information concerning one or more of the following areas:
In their book The Tools of Screenwriting, David Howard and Edward Mabley illustrate ten things the screenwriter must accomplish when…
Dramatic effect derives from what is probable, and not from what is possible. – Aristotle The course of events the screenwriter…