Acting out a screenplay on your own,how to write it as an essay.

Basics of screenplay writing: the format of the screenplay first of all, make it clear that the screenplay is different from any kind of stylistic form, I often see that some of my friends wrote the screenplay as a novel or biography, which is wrong, at least it is unprofessional. Scripts have their own format, writing a script is in some ways a technical job. Writing a script is not a noble artistic creation, it is just an ordinary type of work. There is no difference between a playwright and a cleaner, it is just a very common job, so everyone can write a script and everyone can be a director. Of course, since it's a job type, it has its own norms. These norms may not make you an expert quickly, but they at least make you look like one. Or, not so much that your poor formatting becomes a reason for a reviewer to shoot down your manuscript. Because a reviewer reads three to four scripts a day, and if your script formatting doesn't look professional, he has every reason to flip through a few pages and toss your script in the corner to cool off. First, let's look at the common mistakes made in script writing: 1: Writing a script as a novel Just mentioned above that some of my friends have written their scripts as novels, not that it's not okay, but that one is a literary script, and it can't be used to guide filming and production at all. For example, you can spend a few pages in a novel to write about a person's life, background, family composition, or use a few pages to describe the protagonist's psychological struggle process, but these things can not be expressed on the movie screen. Your script is a screen, and what you want to show is what can be seen and felt directly by the audience on the movie screen. Things like mental activity can't be shown well. Add narration? Sure, unless you can stand the main character's off-screen voice reading pages of a novel in a motionless shot. Movie *pictures* express emotions, and your script is a movie picture to be written through the camera's point of view, which can cause a second problem.2: Unnecessary Camera LabelingIf you write the script like this: in lift 5, with a Panner for a liter-70 camera with a 60mm lens, panning from 8.5m to 2m to focus ...... ...... If you write like this, even if you get past the reviewers, your script will be thrown out by the director. You don't need to teach him how to shoot, it's not your business. You don't have to worry about the camera at all when you're writing a script. But what if it's not a script so you don't have to think about the camera? Not really, you need to think about the camera in relation to the camera and not the position. Scripts have their own special camera terms, and using them more often can make your script professional, or at least look professional.1. Angleon Angle alignment: for example, BILL walks out of a convenience store, and the camera is pointed at BILL.2. Favoring main performance: BILL is in a big square with a lot of people, but the main performance is BILL.3. Anotherangle another angle: change the angle of the camera to show that BILL is having fun in a big square. 4.Wilderangle wider angle: first show BILL drinking coke in a corner of the square, then the camera is pulled away to show the square where BILL is. 5.Newangle new angle: change the angle to show BILL drinking coke, making the camera rich. 6.POV point of view: BILL is in a big square, there are lots of people, but the main performance is BILL. 7. 6. POV point of view: look at things from BILL's point of view. Reverseangle: BILL and SALLY are dancing together, first shoot BILL to see SALLY, then shoot SALLY to see BILL, usually two people's POV mutual inverse. 8.Overshoulderangle: The camera crosses BILL's shoulder to see SALLY. BILL's shoulders can be a natural split of the picture, very commonly used type. 9. Movingshot sports shots: including follow the camera, panning, following, etc., anyway, the camera is in motion, as for the specific how to move, is not now a problem to consider. 10. Twoshot two-person shots: BILL and SALLY in the side of the drink of coke while talking, this kind of lens camera do not move at random to prevent "off-axis". 11. This kind of camera should not be moved freely to prevent "off-axis". BILL and SALLY two people together with an axis, the camera can only be in the axis of the side of the movement, if you cross this axis, in the picture BILL and SALLY's position on the left and right will be swapped, causing the audience to visualize the logic of the confusion. 11.Closeshot close-up: emphasize SALLY's beautiful eyes, but generally used sparingly for the better. 12.Insert insert lens: Something close up, such as the color of the day is late, SALLY asked BILL what time it is, BILL raised his hand, then you can pick up a close-up of BILL's watch, of course, you can also use such a lens to change the scene, for example, BILL moved away from the watch when the camera to see the night of the ball has been. The above is the format of the shot description in the script, look at an example to understand. This is the specific writing format: the scene description to bold, time and place to bold, left scene in the sound effects to bold mark the first appearance of the character's name to bold in the center of the character's conversation to center, leaving space on both sides, different characters of the conversation to another line marked camera relationship marked scene switching, "cut to" is hard to cut, "cut to" is hard to cut, "cut to" is hard to cut, "cut to" is hard to cut, "cut to" is hard to cut, "cut to" is hard to cut, "cut to" is hard to cut, "cut to" is hard to cut. "Cut to" is a hard cut, "to" is to add the effect of transitions, all to the right, such as the use of special effects, should also be marked in bold II, Introduction to Scriptwriting, which is my experience in the University of the study of screenplay writing courses. I remember when the tutor and we said: "To write a good script, you must know the basic knowledge and theory of the script, and understand the laws of the movie! Today, as one of them, I have the honor to share with you what I know about screenplay theory, and I hope you will bear with me if there are any mistakes or omissions. Simply put, to write a good story, first of all, you have to conceptualize the direction of your story, character relationships, plot climax, thematic ideas, etc. ...... American Hollywood has a set of screenwriting laws: that is, the beginning, set up contradictions, resolve contradictions, and then set up contradictions, until the end. China also has its own screenwriting laws: start, carry on, turn, and merge. In the following text, I will categorize the basic and important elements of writing a screenplay in detail, and will give examples to illustrate. The basic theory of screenplay: attitude, theme > the most important thing to write a story is the attitude of the story, different attitudes will produce different results. Take a simple example, the same is to write a story about a woman in a greenhouse, if the author is to write with an obscene, pornographic attitude, the story will naturally focus on the part of love between men and women. On the contrary, if the author is to a sympathetic, respectful attitude to write, the story will focus on the depiction of women forced to sell their bodies, the body can not help but poor, helpless ......> in the pen to write the story before you must ask yourself: what kind of story you want to tell? Is the friendship between friends (such as the movie Midnight Cowboy - midnightcowboy), love between men and women (Titanic - Titanic), alien invasion of the Earth's story (Tiansha Earth Strike Back), or an accusation of war story (killing field - platon), etc. That's the theme. The theme must be very clear, followed through, and unquestioned. You can't write a set of war clips that at one point cast doubt on war and at another point glorify it. A theme is a compass that guides you through the story, and through the loose ends. And most importantly, it prevents you from straying from the main path in your writing. Try to give an example, the Qing Dynasty Emperor Yongzheng in the wild history is a kill brother, kill father to seize the throne, rape his brother's wife of the beast. However, Yongzheng in the Yongzheng Dynasty (an early TV series aired on ATV) author's writing Yongzheng, is a good emperor. Because the author's theme is to write a good emperor, so in the story will only see Yongzheng sleepless all night to criticize Zhangzheng, inspection of farmers, tax cuts, the implementation of good governance and other scenes, and did not kill his brother, kill his father and other scenes. Therefore, a set of successful script is to let the audience read, clearly understand the author wants to express the ideas and themes. Creating character conflict (createcharacterconflict) Character conflict is a surefire way to attract an audience. This includes the conflict between the characters and the characters of the story, the conflict between the characters and his own values. > the story of the character wants to do something, but there is a force to counteract him, which is Potogonist/Antogonist For example, in the movie FallingDown, the protagonist has just finished a painful prison career, and when he gets out of prison, he wants to see his wife, and live a normal life (Potogonist, he wants to pursue things). pursue). But his wife shuns him and disowns him, and the people around him discriminate against him because of his criminal record (Antogonist, the force that prevents him from achieving his goal). > Good drama comes when there is a conflict between characters and characters and there is a knot that cannot be separated pulling them together. To give a simple example, the hero's wife is a woman of the third degree and gossip, while the hero's mother is a traditional woman who observes etiquette. Because of circumstances, the protagonist and his wife must move into the house with their mother. Imagine two people in total conflict: daughter-in-law and grandmother when pulled together by an unbreakablebond. Createdramatictension>For example, the protagonist in the story breaks into an enemy base, there is a gun sticking out of the darkness aimed at him (the audience knows this but the protagonist doesn't), the enemy is about to shoot, and the audience is worried about the protagonist. > The protagonist's mother is sick, and he only has a hundred dollars at home, so he goes to the casino to try his luck. Luckily, the protagonist keeps on winning and has a few thousand dollars, enough for his medical expenses. However, he is so greedy that he does not know how to lose and continues to gamble. As a result, he loses game after game (the audience knows that he is on the wrong path). In the end, he even lost the one hundred dollars in his hand, and went so far as to ask the Dalek to borrow money (he attempted to achieve his goal in the wrong way). > The presence of a time limit, or a time bomb, on certain events in a story can give the audience a sense of tension that can be maintained for a long period of time. In twelve hours, a meteorite will hit the Earth, killing more than half of all life on the planet. (Movie - Meteorite Impact) The bus must maintain a speed of 120 km/h or the bomb on board will explode. (Movie--Life and Death) > The use of a turning point creates an unexpected effect that arouses the audience's anticipation and strengthens the tension of the plot, thus sustaining the audience's interest in the story. Turning points are most often found in the first and second paragraphs of a story. Turning points in the first part of the script are usually used to open the story and show the choices that the protagonist is going to face. In the latter part of the script, the turning point is used to point the protagonist to the resolution of the crisis and to wrap up the story. For example, in the famous movie Born on the Fourth of July, the protagonist faces the first turning point at the beginning of the story: whether or not to fight in the Vietnam War. The protagonist finally chooses to join the war and goes to war. However, this is not always the case, as the protagonist's legs are broken during the war and he is wheelchair-bound for the rest of his life. The original patriotic protagonist changes his mind after experiencing multiple events. This leads to a very surprising turning point in the ending of the story, where he turns from a main war activist to an anti-war activist, thus bringing out the theme of anti-war. Other tips > I believe that anyone with an essay will know what is called an ambush! Laying an ambush can entice the audience to follow the plot. For example, in the movie Mind Tricks, the protagonist Tommy reveals early on that he has the ability to mimic people's signatures and behavior (ambush), and by the time the story develops to the point where he kills the rich man Ditch, the audience, by virtue of the ambush, has already gauged that the protagonist will impersonate Ditch. The so-called Payoff is the object that best symbolizes the whole story. For example, in the movie "Apartment", the key to the door is a payoff, and in the famous movie "Schindler's List", the list of Jews is also a payoff. > There are two images, which are shown in a montage. For example, in the movie "The Godfather", one side of the screen broadcasts the holy ceremonies being held in the church, such as the priest baptizing a child, praying to God, and so on. But on the other side, it shows the evil side of the Church, for example, the leader of the Church goes to the houses of those who oppose him and kills them in order to take over the power. Montage can also refer to a number of different and unrelated images, when they are cut together, another meaning will be created, in simple terms, such as the first frame in which one hand is pitching a ball, and the other frame is another hand to receive a ball, but the ball does not necessarily have to be the same, but when the two frames are together, it is a person who throws the ball to the other person, note that / if the middle of the addition of another If another picture is added in the middle, the meaning will be totally different! (Note: this paragraph montage of text interpretation by the netizen "Bego" provides) script three big taboo > script writing and novel writing are two completely different things, to know the purpose of writing a script is to use the words to express a series of pictures, so you want to let the script to see the text and real-time associations with a picture, will bring them to the world of animation. A novel is different, in that it includes not only images, but also lyrical sentences, rhetorical devices, and descriptions of the inner world of the characters. These should not be in a script. Take a simple example, in the novel, there is a sentence like this: "Today, the results of the HKCEE were released, and students were waiting for the results nervously. After saying goodbye to his parents, Xiao Ming went to the school to collect the result notices. The teacher handed out the result slips and Xiao Ming thought to himself: It would be bad if he failed this time. He was very worried and afraid that he wouldn't know how to face his family after failing the exam.......』Imagine if the above sentences were written in a script, how would you tell the actors to look at it and express it with their actions. If you were to use a script to express the same meaning, you would have to write it as follows: "Inside the classroom, the students were sitting in their seats with nervous expressions on their faces, looking at the teacher who was standing outside. The teacher was holding a stack of grade notices in her hand. She looked at the one at the head of the face and called out, "Daxiong Chen! Daxiong immediately walked out to collect his report card. Xiao Ming was in a corner of the classroom, rubbing his hands together. He looked outside the classroom, and the scene gradually returned to that morning. Ming's parents had been sitting in the hall that morning. Ming had put on his uniform and was ready to go out, but when he looked at his father and mother and saw their serious faces, he didn't know what to say. Xiao Ming's father said, "will pass?" Xiaoming said, "It ...... will." "Chen Xiaoming!" The teacher's loud voice brought Xiao Ming back to reality from his memories. The teacher held Xiao Ming's report card in his hand and looked at him, Xiao Ming stayed for a while, before quickly walking out to collect ......』> There should not be too much dialog in the script (unless it is the need of the plot), otherwise the whole story will become incoherent, lack of action, the audience looks as if they are listening to the reading of the script, so boring. Be aware that you are now writing in movie language, not literary language. A script that is only suitable for reading but not for watching is not good. Therefore, a good movie script, the less dialogue, the stronger the sense of picture, the greater the power. The more powerful it is. As a simple example, if you write about a man on the phone, you'd better not have him sitting by the phone not moving, just talking. If the plot needs, you can let him stand up, or take a few steps with the phone, try to avoid the picture of dull and monotonous. > Many people write scripts with too many loose ends, in which there are a lot of characters, interspersed with a lot of scene entrances, complicating the story, and the audience may not understand what the author is trying to express the theme. Imagine if there are more than a dozen important roles in a movie scene, and there are many stories between the roles, you ask the audience in a short period of time that can remember each role so clearly. In fact, there is a motto in script writing: "Simpleisthebest! The simpler the story, the better. Think of all the good movies you've seen, and see if they all have simple plots. For example, the movie Titanic is just about a big ship sinking, and in the middle of the sinking, the hero and heroine fall in love. Other movies, too, are so simple that a short newspaper review can tell the story outline in just a few dozen words. But simplicity is always the hardest thing: "Simple is difficult."