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» Screenwriting Tips from a Screenplay Contest Judge
By Gordy Hoffman | Published 03/28/2006 | Screenwriting | Unrated
Do you realize what you're saying?? In the theatre, they read plays aloud over and over in the process of script development, and one of the reasons they do this is to hear the dialogue. When I hear dialogue in my head, it might sound very good, but then when I hear a person actually speak it, I often have an impulse to jump in front of a bus. And over and over and over and over, when I read screenplay entries to BlueCat, I am immediately dismayed when the characters start speaking. Excellent everything else, awful dialogue. And I often wonder if the writer has actually heard the lines they have written for their characters out loud. Either read the whole thing aloud to yourself, or even better, get a group of your friends to read it. You do not need professional actors to evaluate dialogue. Just people excited to help. Videotape it. I have videotaped readings, and then sat down and worked out an entire rewrite off the tape, addressing every single line that bothered me. Which leads me to another thing.
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» 10 Golden Rules of Screenwriting
By Nick Smith | Published 03/28/2006 | Screenwriting | Unrated

It doesn't matter whether you're writing your first screenplay... or you're a Hollywood veteran.

ALL screenwriters constantly need to remind themselves of what kind of writing works in a film and what doesn't.

These rules are tried and tested. Give them pride of place on your wall. And refer to them whenever you're working on your screenplay.

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» How to Start a Screenplay: Treatment or Free Fall?
By Gordy Hoffman | Published 03/28/2006 | Screenwriting | Unrated
Now, does trusting your writing mean sitting down with no ideas, opening a new document, and starting to type? Of course. And no. What I need to do is make a decision and execute. And this decision often comes back to whether I should write an outline or treatment before I start writing my screenplay, or, with a rough idea, a shadowy shadow of something calling from my brain, start writing?
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» Pitching your Story Idea or Script to Hollywood
By Paris Anderson | Published 03/28/2006 | Screenwriting | Unrated
The producers staff is very important. Think producers assistants are not important and/or a waste of your time? Think again. They are very important. The Producers staff are always looking for a reason to barge into their bosses office with - "Boy, have I found a good story for you!" Producers' assistants are always looking for ways to impress the boss, why not give them one.
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» Writing the Classic Movie Ending (How to Finish your Screenplay!)
By Gordy Hoffman | Published 03/28/2006 | Screenwriting | Unrated
I've only finished so many screenplays in my life. Writing a script all the way to the very last page is always an extremely significant, personal achievement for me. A large part of its significance is the reality that I actually wrote an ending, or, at the very least, typed "THE END." Trying to finish a screenplay and effectively pay something off-----this is arguably the hardest part of great screenwriting and often a major breaker of screenplays. Devising a true, organic climax is so daunting and dangerous to screenwriters that they often convince themselves they have come up with a worthy ending merely to pry themselves from the vise of their own standards. They delude themselves into believing that what they have created is good and stands shoulder to shoulder with the rest of their screenplay. Faced with the challenge of a superior ending can be horrifying, and it is very tempting to jump suddenly into a slipshod ending simply to get out and say I'm done. I'm finished.
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