#learn screenwriting

[w-a-film]

How To Write (and Transcend) A Romantic Comedy w/Elemental Director Peter Sohn

We all love RomComs! But how do you write one? And how can you transncend the cliches to tell a deeper story? In this video, we talked with Elemental's writer/director Peter Sohn to see what's in a RomCom and how Elemental goes beyond the tropes to tell a highly personal story.

#screenwriting #write for animation #animation #youtube #learn screenwriting #screenwriting tips #writeblr #Elemental #pixar film #disney pixar #pixar elemental #ember lumen #ember x wade #elemental ember #wade ripple #elemental wade #behind the scenes #film process #how to write #romantic comedy #romance #romantic tropes #romcom #how to write a romcom

[writingwithfolklore]

How to Read with Intention

                Often you hear advice to read, read, READ!!! And while I absolutely agree with that, I think there’s a way to read effectively to learn from it, and make sure you gain the most you can from it.

                Reading intentionally looks like paying attention to and taking note of the technique, skill, and choices the author makes. Start with identifying the basics: motifs, theme, genre, through-lines. Essentially anything your English teacher wanted you to pick out of school readings (turns out those classes were actually worth something)!

                As you’re going through the story, record any questions, strong emotions, or other things that stick out to you. Try to be specific with page number and chapter so later you can see how the emotional narrative develops throughout the story. A note might look like, “I wonder what’s going to happen to Anna now that her mother is back in town” or “Josh losing his journal is ending my life”.

                Note what you really enjoy about the story, and also what you would change or do differently. Things that make you uncomfortable, in both good or bad ways, or that inspire you. I copy down quotes of lines or passages that I find particularly well written. Sometimes, I try to capture a character I particularly like through finding the quotes that speaks closely to them.

                Pay attention to every word. Writers make a million choices, what does using “sprint” rather than “run” change? Why does the scene in the school yard follow the scene at the tomb?

                What do we know about our main character? How do we know that? We could ask a million questions about a story, and with every one, we’re learning a little bit more on how to write one ourselves.

                Pay special attention to the ending. What insight does it give us to the rest of the story?

                Good luck!

#writing #writers #writing tips #writing advice #writing inspiration #creative writing #writing community #books #film #filmmaking #screenwriting #novel writing #fanfiction #writeblr #reading #how to read with intention #english #learning to write

[dadvans]

AKA sit down and learn all the secrets to a lasting relationship with this married couple (via union solidarity auction)

#white collar #seriously the MOST married picture??? #also $5k to learn screenwriting from lena dunham no thanks but i would pay that much to tell lena dunham to shut the fuck up so

[akantorrr]

lil doodle of a lil stalker lookin at lil fimsh for a lil art challenge :>

#did I put more effort into drawing a made up fish than into the whole stalker? yes #also this was mostly done in a single layer (apart from a couple of lights cause I needed color dodge) and I'm kinda proud of that #ngl I just put on a 1 hour video of taika waititi's bafta screenwriters' lecture and started painting and just zoned out #still learning how to paint lineless and it's so much friggin fun even if this one's rushed and kinda shit lmao #ultrakill #stalker ultrakill #ultrakill stalker #akans art

[cosmoseinfeld]

don't you all miss shows like this. where the homosexuality is in the subtext? hidden in the editing and blocking and mirroring and the music choices and

#honestly i learned so much about screenwriting from meta analysis... #it's 2005 and the hays code is still intact #house md

[galwithalibrarycard]

So I just watched the school for good and evil movie, mostly for Kit Young, and the two main girl characters essentially recreated the main story beats of the scene from beauty and the beast where belle’s love saves the beast, complete with a kiss on the lips, only to then reiterate that their love is “best friends only” AND I just went in the tag to find out that in the books these two girls are SIBLINGS?????? I think this is the most convoluted case of queer baiting I have ever experienced and my head is SPINNING netflix pls you’re going to give the kids watching this a COMPLEX

#WHAT did I just watch #the school for good and evil spoilers #I never read the books they came out long after I aged out of middle grade #I just like fairytales #and clearly the screenwriter/s wanted to make these girls a queer couple so just DO IT #what the actual fucj #so bad it’s hilarious #and the best part is up until that Freudian mess of an ending the rest of the movie was really pretty good #BAFFLING #don’t get me wrong I was bothered by the gender essentialism #and the equating of oldness and hooked noses with ugliness and evil #have we learned nothing with the ageism and antisemitism Hollywood????? #I am losing it someone laugh at the madness with me

[lindensea]

The writing in My Mister is really something else. 20 yr old Lee Jian is just easily manipulating the lives of middle aged men and staring blankly and drinking an ungodly amount of maximo instant coffee and occasionally saying creepy shit like "Please hate me with all of your heart. I will hate you with all of mine." This is why we need more female writers

#I'm sure she'll soften up since netflix lists this as healing but rn she's got these men running in circles #and is basically a professional conwoman...how do 20yr olds know how to do all that?? i was so clueless at that age #my mister #also learning that my mister has the same screenwriter as another miss oh! was a lightbulb moment. i think i love park hae young #she writes women right #also only just finished ep 3 so don't give me spoilers

[araindropshallfall]

Arguing that it’s okay to feed fanfic into AI because it doesn’t legally belong to the fanfic author is so ridiculous because, the disrespect aside, you shouldn’t actually be feeding anything pertaining to the source material to AI either. Like, this is literally a concern with the WGA strike right now that AI not be taught using their work.

Anyways stop using AI for creative pursuits it’s plagiarism <3

#“the stuff ai writes is bad so it’s fine” it’s bad because it’s learning and you’re teaching it #ao3 #wga strike #fanfiction can exist because it doesn’t profit but feeding fanfiction to ai is teaching it about the source material which hurts the writer #and is also just a dick move to the fanfic writers who sometimes spend years working on what you fed a computer to get a five minute ending #fanfic doesn’t put screenwriters’ jobs at risk but AI does just in case we need clarification about why one is okay and the other isn’t

[archduchessofnowhere]

We can say many things about the latest Sisi adaptations but to be honest I'm glad (most of them) were so open about how inaccurate they were from the very beginning. No one tried to convince us they were super serious biopics.

#i say most and not all because i can't remember if there was ever an interview with directors/screenwriters/actors of die kaiserin #in which they talked about all the liberties they took with history when making the show #but all the others? open about it from day one #dominique saying around the time season 1 dropped that the real elisabeth was super shy and that her portrayal was purposefully not accurat #corsage embracing being an anachronistic fever dream #the director of sisi und ich saying that she wanted to create a new myth #in fact when I went to watch it we had a small introduction of the movie and we were explicitly told it wasn't a biopic #but a fictionalised take on Elisabeth's last years #OTHERS could learn from this

[confessedlyfannish]

real confession: i hope people read the tags. i literally have so much fun writing the tags. possibly more fun than writing the content. i maybe write the content so i can write the tags.

#in comedy we call this escalation #i learned that from second city #kidding #i wish i had the confidence to do improv #my friend took improv classes in high school #now he's a screenwriter #and a massive nerd

[cacophonylily]

The cruelest treason of all.

#broke my heart #she watches #1883 series #1883 yellowstone #elsa dutton #isabel may #what a narrator #what an actress #outshined them all #the spin-off was rrrrreally good #better in lots of ways than the original show imo #tougher to watch too but really heartfelt filming and screenwriting #I'm glad we saw James years later keeping his word to the tribal chief's son/grandson #the current Dutton gen could learn a lot from that particular ancestor ah #Tim McGraw is an amazing actor too

[w-a-film]

10 Characteristics That Make Any Character Sympathetic

What's the greatest story commandment? According to Pixar Director ANDREW stanton it's MAKE ME CARE. So how can you make sure your audience cares for your story and characters? In thsi video you'll learn about the 10 characteristics that can enaure empathy in your audience.

#screenwriting #write for animation #animation #youtube #learn screenwriting #screenwriting tips #writeblr #empathy #screenwriter #screenwritingblr #scriptwriting #script #scriptwriting tips

[katierosefun]

i need to write a ghost story i need to write a love story i need to write historical fiction i need to write a 16-episode korean drama i need to write a 5-season sitcom i need to write a short film i need to write a feature film i need to write a coming of age story i need to write a weird modern fantasy i need to rewrite a fairytale i need to write something i need to always bounce between genres and mediums i will not be contained by genres and styles i will constantly exasperate readers and the overall marketing scheme by never fitting in a single box i will constantly dabble in new forms of writing i will never be predictable and etc

#caroline talks #do u ever. do u ever just get filled with the overwhelming urge to CREATE. CREATE A STORY #sometimes i severely miss college #because i miss bouncing between writing short stories #and poems #and short films and television and movies #i remember my screenwriting professor learned that i was applying to law schools #and that was after i proudly told him i wrote a 40k word story #and then he gently said 'you know . . my dad really wanted to do music #but he wound up working the family business instead. . . and when my dad got later in life #i would hear him playing music and he would cry' #and i was like. 'hm. okay professor.' and i have never stopped thinking about it #but u know what. it's fine it's fine it's fine #[through gritted teeth + through shaky breath] i can do it all i can do it all i can do it all i swear i can do it all #(u can tell. i am procrastinating by how often i'm talking today huh)

[yuneu]

god i love listening to dramatic gutwrenching songs and imagining tv show gay people that dont exist to it

#when i learn how to screenwrite it's over for all you people fr

[pastafossa]

To the anon about fanfics:

Im a graduated screenwriting major. I started writing by writing fanfiction. It Was then that I realized it was something I wanted to do.

What’s hilarious though, is that when I got to college and met my fellow screenwriting majors, you would not believe how many told me they started because they started writing fanfic too!

Putting your stuff out there is scary, but just stop to think about the amazing things that can (and will) come from it!

❤️❤️❤️

Yessss, all these writers who started with fic writing! Seriously, so many people now have gotten their start with fanfic. Fanfic is uniquely accessible with low barriers for entry and a built-in audience that authors wish they had starting out. It's the best place in the world to try out writing, full of enthusiastic fellow authors and a premade framework to slot yourself into. I honestly think there's going to come a time when the vast majority of authors start with fanfic, as it becomes more and more accepted.

There's no telling what awesome things you might one day create if you take that leap and put your work out there. <3

#ask response #fanfic #fic #also i had NO IDEA you were a screenwriting major THAT IS SO COOL #and i love how many of you were there because of fanfic #i feel like fanfic is just this wonderful entry into writing #because it gives you this safe way to try things out and learn and grow and be encouraged by others #and it's fun tbh #and so many awesome stories have come out of it

[ladsofsorrow24]

it's so funny how yoshida And asa seems like a viable love interest for denji in the latest chapter lmao

#yoshida be talking like a heroine asking for the hero's help with denji there #and then we got that scene with denji trying to cheer asa up #hmmm #bi rights TO ME #i'm kidding lol but #i love to see these little interactions #it's so fun #seeing the characters gradually reveals their own true persona just from little tidbits of dialogue and interactions that is #very in character #yet still enough to move the plot forward #great writing skills to have there #i learn more about writing and revealing key plot points from reading chainsaw man #compared to my time in screenwriting class lmao #tmi tag