It's important to remember that the primary goal, the main purpose of any movie, is to entertain an audience. It's a cardinal sin in the movie world to bore people. For the scriptwriter, this means that every character and every situation we write needs to be interesting and intriguing. Our creative juices begin to flow after we've had the idea. And the craft of developing this idea into a script, and then eventually into a movie is the focus of this course. In this lecture, I'll cover the course content, and some general broad concepts.

The first section deals with the creative aspects of script writing certain genre theme characters, plot and structure. In the second part, we cover the practical aspects of script format, and the conventions of scripts, directions, and script analysis. Before we move on, I'm going to just go through some general concepts about the craft of script writing in the form of bullet points. It would be beneficial if you download these bullet points from resources for this lecture, and kept them by your workplace. The traditional ideas of a story arc, as applied to Novel Writing, do apply to moviemaking even more. So the vast majority of great movies are character driven, and not plot driven.

Audience that are interested in the characters, how they react to challenges, how they change over time, throughout the story. A plot driven movie doesn't take this into account. Of course, exceptions do prove the rule with characters like James Bond and Indiana Jones. But even Indiana Jones changed a little in his last movie, when his father said, let it go in the and he realized that there were things more important than chalices, or archaeological artifacts. The writer needs to create a hero that the audience can't help but follow. This character needs to have a strong character arc.

We'll expand on this later, but the character arc describes how the character undergoes internal changes to his character. The hero should suffer through challenges and overcome them more and more with increasing intensity towards the climax of the movie. his beliefs and physical engineering rents are all challenged to the utmost. It's a great idea for a new script writer to read many, many movie scripts, particularly the ones that are very successful. Read through the scripts, taking notes, and reverse engineer what makes an appealing movie. The concept of show don't tell is true all mediums relating a story.

But so script writing is much more important than if you're writing a novel. The script writer relates the backstory, which is the character's history, through dialogue and action. You can also use action to show the characters interior landscape, how they're feeling and what conflicts they have inside. Bear in mind, the action should take around 80% of the time of your script. Try and keep dialogue punchy to a minimum have purpose, the dialogue should have purpose and push the plot forward. Keep the scenes short, between two to three minutes is ideal.

Vary the scene length, kind of action, and the settings. This gives a varied pace and a rhythm to the overall story. Always use standard script formats and directions. Don't try and invent your own, it will not be appreciated. Keep your scripts lent from 100 to 120 pages 100 words on a movie script is equal to about one minute of real time. In the next lecture, I'm going to talk about how to tell the story and discuss the concepts of theme and conflict.

You learn about the important elements necessary to create a compelling storyline for your movie script.