How Do You Write A Screenplay For A Movie?
Great ideas are a dime a dozen, but a fully realized screenplay can be worth a lot of money. It takes an immense amount of work to take an idea from inception all the way through to the final writing stages of being written into a screenplay. If you put in the hours and do the work the right way, however, the final result will be one that you can not only be proud of, but might actually be able to sell to a production company. Start with a synopsis. If you have a great idea for a concept, that’s just the seed from which your story must grow. Your concept should be able to be written into a one sentence statement called a “log line.” To start your screenplay, you must develop a simple story arch for the journey of the protagonist. There must be something that happens to the protagonist early on in that sets the story in motion. This is called the inciting incident. Once the inciting incident gives the protagonist a goal to reach, you must set up a series of obstacles that the protagonis
