Screenwriting : Screenwriting is... (?) by Jason Dailing

Jason Dailing

Screenwriting is... (?)

How would you describe screenwriting? As an art? A craft? A technical blueprint? Something else entirely?

Jaap Ruurd Feitsma

in the opposite order perhaps. it starts with an idea. you get a beginning and an ending for it. then you fill in the rest, with all it's up's and down's and plot twists. that's your blueprint. Then starts the crafting and once you've done this a million times your craftsmanship will be come will become art and you the artist.

Padma Narayanaswamy

A passion which can also be commercially viable

Kriss Sprules

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MJ Gavin

A story, that when written well, plays the movie in the mind of your reader - transporting them to another place and time, emotionally engaging them with people they wish they could be like, or laugh at. When I think of true heros in stories, they attempt obstacles that I don't have the guts to try. Is there a twelve step program for screenwriters? At times screenwriting is horrifically depressing, yet gets you higher than illicit drugs. For many who try to walk away and live a "normal" life, the damn muse crawls back when your tired, weak, and vulnerable... And if you're a writer, you let the muse back into bed with you, knowing you're in a toxic relationship but powerless to stop; alas you keep writing.

Sharyn White

giving birth!

Chaitanya Kulkarni

I think its discipline.. like discipline in army or in schools... I mean, you can walk anywhere, but your walk becomes "march" with discipline... So you can write anything, you maybe the most talented and artistic person; but if you want a film, follow the discipline!!

Ivan Velez Sneed

A screenplay is a work of art that's compomised for money and often bastardized by less deserving talent...

Jason Blanco

Agree with Ivan. The screenplay is a blueprint for the movie in the writer's mind. Generally, it's necessary - at least as regards our system of filmmaking. But dig something like 'Laws of Gravity'. That said, such a feat can only be accomplished with a community of like-minded, creative-thinking actors are all on the same page as director, shooter, etc. But, you know, we should all start thinking outside the box. Art shouldn't have a system.

Ivan Velez Sneed

@Bix Insofar as having a labor of love turned into what would make an after school special seem like high art... Not to say that every script ever written is art either. Or that every screenwriter is an artist.. I've written my share of crap. But some people should restrict their art to doodling at their weekly conference call meeting. I'm sure there are plenty of hacks in our sand boxes who purport to be visionaries and those are the ones I want to avoid... which is part of the reason, I write, shoot, direct and edit my own crap. So hearsay and experience... Probably why I spend little time in the sandbox now...

Max Boyce

A writer writes the story (detailed outline or short story or novel), then rewrites it as a blueprint for a director (in present tense if possible) to apply camera views to symbols, actions, dialog and character traits to expand emotions in metaphors, analogies, similes and/or allegory. Without visual and/or spoken literary devices to extrapolate the diamonds and/or coal of human emotions, a screenplay is just a meaningless series of camera directions and blabbering actors.

Tabitha Baumander

all of the above pluss a bit more

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