Scriptwrite
Are you writing a short or movie script? Or in process with an outline/treatment or perhaps you have completed your screenplay? Are you an actor, or a producer +/or director? Perhaps you are involved with film financing or operating as an exec?
How do you effectively write or read your script to understand and feel comfortable with the complex elements that comprise a fully functional screen story and movie?
You can profit by attending Chris Knowles’ Scriptwrite Workshops to prepare, write, assess and checklist your script investment.
From lo/no shorts to blockbusters, whether an historical ‘talkfest’, a cross-over genre, an action brain ‘numb-er’, or a teen-cute romantic comedy - the script asset is key and sets in motion the movie that appears on our screens.
Whatever your role, your judgments should not be encumbered by received current trends, media spin or quick fix remedies, but, if possible, based on personal experience, and if that’s not feasible then certainly on proven analysis and acquired wisdom.
Do you know how your character types weave your story and understand their function as a dramatic construct in cinema?
Do you know who your characters really are, how they really work, why they work, who they work for and how to deepen them - physically, psychologically, emotionally, aesthetically, and kinetically?
You need to know your characters inside out and outside in, their personality traits, their motivation and needs whether simple or complex; you need to recognize their archetypal legacy, even down to their place and time in (movie) history + their cultural inheritance.
Do you know their dramatic antecedents and how they are advancing the ongoing story of cinematic performance?
Do you know how the stories they inhabit are constructed and realized? Are you familiar with your story type, or how your story structure works and the principles of plotting, sequencing, motivated conflict generation, cause and effect, forward and reverse motion?
And what do you appreciate about cinema kinetics, of rhythm, pace, tone, momentum, trajectory, telegraphing, embedding, layering, foregrounding?
If we are to advance the legacy of cinema, we all need to know how to fully read, write and realize authentic, coherent organic scripts and movies.
Contact: chris@channelwebscene.co.uk