How can i avoid info- dumps? : That is the question. Writing dialogue isn't easy. It sometimes gets really difficult to avoid the 'information dumping' beast, especially when you feel you need to get to the point quickly and quit dragging yourself through the exposition. How does one do that? Avoid...
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Hi All, I recently read «MAKING A GOOD SCRIPT GREAT» by LINDA SEGER. It was brilliant and extremely helpful, only problem is that it was in a foreign language. Wondering if you could help me find an English version. Would really appreciate it. Thanks a million. Hil.
It is interesting reading all the varying responses on this thread. Most people read the title but not the question. Hilary was looking for an english language version of Linda Seger's book.
You need the screenwriter 's Bible written by David Trottier
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How many people use Adobe Story? Does it help (with script structure and all)?
I use Celtx as it's free, is available on most devices and saves to Cloud so I can access latest version of any script on any devices I have to hand.
Amazon Studios recently launched their Story Builder software which is for creating structure. It's free to use, multi platform and cloud based. However you have to option the story if you want to use...
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Adobe Story like the others helps with script formatting and organization rather than structure.
Chekhov's gun: "Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there." - Anton Chekhov
Chekhov's gun is a dramatic principle requiring that every element in a narrative be necessary and irreplaceable, and that everything else be removed.
Not too long ago my lecturer planted an incredible idea in my mind. "If you can not explain the entire plot of your movie in three sentences then you don't know what you're doing." I took this so seriously i even started describing the core idea in movie plots I'd seen using three sentences. Let's a...
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Conclusion - There are only really seven different stories?
not really, cause then you can mix it all up and avoid putting "Boy meets Girl" in the exposition and put it in the resolution. {Boy is lonely and frustrated. Goes on a global rampage. Boy meets Girl.}
or, you could just go all bananas. {Boy meets Girl1- falls in love. Boy loses memory in tragic accident and later gets married to Girl2. Boy remembers Girl1.} {Girl meets Girl. Girl becomes Boy. Girl :O!!!}
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We're like when the unstoppable force meets the immovable object.
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This says everything!!!
Thanks for connecting. I would love to read some of your work. I bet it is really interesting. I wish you the best!!
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dumping exposition is made best during a heightened conflict in a scene, between characters or action.
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spread the information over an larger area than one scene. also try conveying the information as part of the story not dialogue and further more maybe realise that the audience doesnt require to know it all. leave a little mystery. it doesnt hurt.
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My two rules are: 1) Have people talk the way they talk. 2) Don't have them instructing someone on the world they both live in. Nobody does that. Those rules aside, there ways to refer to the informat...
Expand commentMy two rules are: 1) Have people talk the way they talk. 2) Don't have them instructing someone on the world they both live in. Nobody does that. Those rules aside, there ways to refer to the information you need in a natural way. For example, if I wanted to make people aware of an invisible microwave energy beam in the air I might have a bird fly through it, get fried, and drop on the ground. It would be natural to comment on seeing that happen in front of you.