If you're having a hard time thinking of what to write:
1. Take out your Dramatic Need Story Sheet.
Look at #7: Scene Setup. A. Is it inside or outside? B. Where does it take place? C. What time of day is it? D. What is the character doing?
Use A, B, and C to write your location line:
INT: SMALL LAME APARTMENT - NIGHT
2. Now use D to write your first action line:
Mike, twenty something, unshaven, take a black t-shirt out of a closet filled to the gills with black t-shirts.
3. Now look at your first event. What does the character do? Write it down using action lines. Remember, these are instructions to the shooting crew and the actors. So write visually.
He turns the phone off and drops it on the table as he plunges to his top dresser drawer. He digs around and finally comes out with a spiky leather collar. He inspects the spikes and finds one that doesn’t meet with his standards. He licks it and polishes it with his shirt.
4. Do any of the characters say anything? Put it in a dialogue line:
MIKE
(growling Zombie style)
Luna, Luna, Luna, you will be mine soon-ah.
Now just keep following your Dramatic Need Story Sheet. Translate what it says into visual language.
If you want to see what a screenplay looks like, CLICK HERE.
(growling Zombie style)
Luna, Luna, Luna, you will be mine soon-ah.
Now just keep following your Dramatic Need Story Sheet. Translate what it says into visual language.
If you want to see what a screenplay looks like, CLICK HERE.
