oblvn

4y

bless pls

Oscar Winner

4y

I’m willing to PM my workshop booklet from my writing class but y’all gotta promise to not share with anyone and keep to yourselves

Oscar Winner

4y

I’m willing to PM my workshop booklet from my writing class but y’all gotta promise to not share with anyone and keep to yourselves

O7OXO

4y

I need this . I hope you haven't changed your mind

AlexRoyce

4y

Pls bro

Oscar Winner

4y

Sent

Oscar Winner

4y

Here’s the coverage for Tarantino’s original screenplay of Natural Born Killers:
https://johnaugust.com/Assets/nbk.pdf

Mac Wit Da Cheese

4y

Lol they felt so bad for liking it

Oscar Winner

4y

Lmaooo fr. The boogie nights one surprised me, they straight up said that s*** is a NO and Poor lol

Mac Wit Da Cheese

4y

@twitch sorry I hate having the pm function on here and this might help others but I have a question and wanted to see if anything from your class could help

I been struggling with Act 1 of the script. I know it’s supposed to be character introduction and plot set up but it’s been hard getting that to the standard 30 pages. Maybe I’m just being impatient wanting to jump to act 2

Oscar Winner

4y

Well typically if you wanna follow “formal rules” of story telling you want to use about the first 10 pages as the character introduction, their normal life and what that consist of.

Around page 10 is typically the inciting incident, something that happens to kinda kick start the story.

The remaining pages of act 1 usually consist of like a “debate” on wether or not the character wants to act on the inciting incident. And then around pages 25 or so is the Break into Act two character making that decision which kicks them into Act 2 when the “story begins”

So like Matrix the start would be him doing the computer hacking s***, inciting incident would be Trinity contacting him for the first time, the debate would be all the s*** after like the club and him getting attacked at his job and then the break into act two of course would be Neo taking the red pill which launch’s us into Act 2 and the meat of the story the Matrix.

My bad if you already knew all that. Wasn’t too sure why exactly you’re struggling with act 1 but I will honestly say that’s not a good thing. Usually Act 1’s are suppose to be the easiest to write out of the whole script because you’re basically setting up everything that’s to come in the rest of the film.

Like in the film “Sound of metal” that 1st act is easy to write because you know you first have to set up that Ruben is a musician, of course you have to get into his hearing lost, you have to explore him trying to get it fixed by going to the doctor, which that sets up how expensive implants are and Ruben needing money, add on top of that they made his character an ex d*** addict which adds more material with his girlfriend being scared of him relapsing due to this injury…all of that information and set ups gets us into the Act 2 journey.

So I would say really look at your character, if you have a fleshed out character who’s complex there should be plenty you want to say about him/her in the 1st Act.

Mac Wit Da Cheese

4y

Thanks this helped.

I think I’m too eager to get into the action I rush past the intro and set up and having taken a short film script course that kinda encouraged that bad habit

I’m gonna read some scripts today of movies Ive seen and study their first acts. I hear about Matrix script come up a lot when talking about structure so that may be a good one

Oscar Winner

4y

For sure, just look at it this way, whatever the action is for act 2 that you’re eager to write, needs to be set up right? So you gotta use the first act as a means to setting up whatever it is you’re getting into with act 2

In Sound of metal Ruben didn’t just wake up in a deaf community on page 1. That wasn’t til like page 40.
But also keep in mind fam there’s no right or wrong way, I know some ppl like to skip around when they write their scripts and don’t write in chronological order, they write out whatever scenes they are most excited for and fill in the rest later.

Do you know if you’re doing a more character driven piece or plot driven

Mac Wit Da Cheese

4y

The one I’m working on is definitely plot driven

Oscar Winner

4y

Do you have a writing routine/ritual?

Mac Wit Da Cheese

4y

I usually write at night after I work out but don’t a strict routine or ritual tbh

ANTI

4y

gonna rant in here cuz of a tweet i saw

I'm so tired of hacks within the profession and industry stifling the creativity of aspiring writers by just handing them a list of "don'ts" and not offering anything else of value.

Every f***ing class, course and piece of advice. At this point I'm almost certain it's done to discourage people from wanting to write and eliminate possible competition.

Mac Wit Da Cheese

4y

Don’ts as in what not to write about or the industry changing it to make it more Hollywood?

ANTI

4y

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What not to write about, but I'm not just talking about specific subjects or stories. They'll tell you about words you shouldn't use, grammar you should avoid. They make you doubt all of your instincts.

The tweet that inspired this rant was calling out virality writing and writers who create dialogue for the sole purpose of being screenshotted and posted on social media to create hit tweets, memes, etc. I personally don't think it's as big a problem as she makes it out to be, only really used in the most controlled environments like Disney, but even if it is more widespread... who cares? The difference between a line written purposely for social media reaction and a genuinely good, snappy bit of dialogue is so small, indistinguishable to most. But I know for a fact there's going to be young and/or inexperienced writers out there who see this viral tweet with 200k+ likes and suddenly start second guessing everything. And the inevitable result will be either lost interest in writing, or an incredibly bland and boring script.

Stop making writers afraid to write.

ANTI

4y

What not to write about, but I'm not just talking about specific subjects or stories. They'll tell you about words you shouldn't use, grammar you should avoid. They make you doubt all of your instincts.

The tweet that inspired this rant was calling out virality writing and writers who create dialogue for the sole purpose of being screenshotted and posted on social media to create hit tweets, memes, etc. I personally don't think it's as big a problem as she makes it out to be, only really used in the most controlled environments like Disney, but even if it is more widespread... who cares? The difference between a line written purposely for social media reaction and a genuinely good, snappy bit of dialogue is so small, indistinguishable to most. But I know for a fact there's going to be young and/or inexperienced writers out there who see this viral tweet with 200k+ likes and suddenly start second guessing everything. And the inevitable result will be either lost interest in writing, or an incredibly bland and boring script.

Stop making writers afraid to write.