The ability to write a highly polished and professional script doesn’t come easy to anybody. It takes years, decades in fact, to master the craft. Indeed, mastery of that craft requires the mastery of a number of different skills. Screenwriting is not one single, defined skill; it is a set of skills that combine to create the wherewithal to produce the scripts that are transformed into the new films...

We’ve all seen the movies: Dead Poets Society, Rudy, Legally Blonde. Hollywood has painted college experience for us so that we can preview our next four years in a couple of hours. We know exactly what to expect. We are going to have a lousy roommate, who will turn out to either have super powers, or be the downfall of humanity. Our professors are either going to be crazy, super hot, or boring....

Sitting in the movie theater, it suddenly dawns on you: I can write a film! Can’t be that hard right? Wrong! Writing a screenplay is one of the hardest mediums. It’s incredibly precise and it’s a blend of what to say and what to show. There’s dozens of screenwriting books out there. Below is a summary of some of the best tips to writing a script that I found extremely helpful...

by Ellexia Nguyen— The dialogue you create for your character should seamlessly fit the character’s personality and help move the story. Good dialogue in a screenplay should reveal the uniqueness of a character. If you cover the names of your characters and read just the dialogue, you should be able to identify each of the characters. For example, the main character should not sound like the...

by Sid Kali Walking the road of screenwriting and movie making is an exciting creative adventure that will have you crossing paths with a variety characters while experiencing the good, the bad and uncensored moments of the entertainment business. There are certain creative souls that feel a burning desire to journey down the road of screenwriting and movie making come hell or high water. When a...

by Danek S. Kaus – The screenwriting term for the moment that really gets a story going is the inciting incident. Up until this moment, we see the protagonist in their normal world. The inciting incident is something that shakes up that world and causes the main character to take action to achieve a specific goal. It establishes the stakes of the film: Will the boy get the girl? Will the suburban...

by Bernard Landau - Here are some reasons why it is advisable to use screenplay examples as study material: Enrichment of your cultural background.- You as screenwriter must cultivate a broad range of themes even if only interested in developing in a single field such as comedy, fiction, horror films, and so on. By staying abreast of different ways of thinking, writing, nuances of language, descriptions...

by Hamish Spearson - With countless slasher remakes and Japanese horror scene rip-offs filling our screens of late there has been a dearth of great horror on contemporary cinema screens. Perhaps if today’s film-makers are to create truly great horror films again they need to look to the past for some lessons in creating suspense or sustaining mood. Let’s take a look at some truly impressive...