ABSTRACT
We’ve arrived at a major turning point in the craft of screenwriting. One you’ve all been waiting for: the script. To get to that, let’s recap where we’ve been.
We started with character, location, and time frame. Who is this person, where do we find him or her, and when? Then we moved on to dialogue. What do people, our characters, sound like? With each step our characters evolved. We progressed on to the language of film, Film Form, and we added a second character. More insights. More food for our imagination. Learning about the scene without dialogue and transitions we expanded our perception of storytelling into a visual, active medium that allows for endless possibilities. We can leap backwards and forwards in time in the flash of a moment and the audience goes right along with us. We can reveal key information without saying a word. We can go into a character’s mind and live out their fantasies. We, the writers, have a trunk full of tools, a sack full of fire and fairy dust at our fingertips. (You might take a look at a relevant clip on YouTube: www. youtube.com/watch?v=rJtEWejb4uE)
You have to be familiar with and understand the pieces and their function independent of each other before you can put them together. Before you can use them as a whole. We have more pieces to learn about, to wrestle with as we travel on, collecting and piecing the puzzle together.
