A new script writer may start with a great idea, a brilliant idea, and enthusiastically start to write the script, trying to develop it as he goes. For a variety of reasons, this is not a good idea. Firstly, if we don't have a firm idea of the whole story, we're writing in the dark, hoping that things will become clearer as the script develops. This approach tends to leave plot holes, and the script is in danger of becoming a series of action events with no progression of character or theme. Secondly, even though a movie script is a relatively short document, it is complex and may the pub distinct parts which need to relate to each other in the correct way. Keeping track of these parts without previous planning is a hard task.

And lastly, scripts readers are looking for a particular definite structure. It's a movie structure that has been proven over time and is successful at keeping audiences interested and riveted to their seats. If your script does not have this structure, he will probably not be read at all. Your project will be dead in the water. The movie industry has developed a standard letter, a query letter or pitch letter, we say like to see before a script is considered. The screenplay itself is never send.

A pitch letter is received and the person reading it. If he's intrigued by the idea will ask you for your script. Luckily, the current Have a pitch letter is hugely beneficial to you in the early stages of writing the script. It focuses your mind on the major elements of the story helps define the main characters, and establishes the theme. All in just one page of writing. The standard pitch letter presents the title, the genre, whether it's crime, spy, horror, or romance, for example, the logline, which is a one sentence description of the whole movie, a synopsis, which is one or two paragraphs, highlighting the main points and finishing off with a short writers biography.

This letter is really must have. Bear in mind that Hollywood has hundreds of thousands of really great writers As much better or at least as good as you and I. It's a waste of time trying to impress them with your fantastic writing and try to get your script in front of them. The pitch later is extremely important. It is the only way to get noticed initially. Create creating a pitch letter is a difficult task.

Many writers can struggle for months to write the perfect script and find it really hard to write one page of a pitch letter. It should encapsulate your whole movie script in simple terms in short sentences. Modern screenwriters such as Syd field, Blake Snyder, and Michael Haig have further developed the original idea of Aristotle's three acts into more complex structure is a structure which works accessible, and it's the kind of thing that Hollywood are definitely looking for. However, as the structure becomes more complex, it becomes more difficult to organize. And we need tools to help us. Almost all script writers use a concept of beats to describe the story evolution of their movie.

A beat is a sequence of short scenes, presenting a part of the story, and different writers may use between eight to 16. This is a great way to organize your work, helps keep scenes in order, and also allows you to plan the overall structure in line with the Hollywood requirements. Beats can be written either in words on a table in this poem or as it corkboard with sticky notes or cards can be pinned to the board in various locations. In Section two, you learn how to structure the perfect movie script and how and where to include those events that make a successful movie. A corkboard is a great tool to play around with, but it's not portable. Script beats can be organized using a software such as Celtics, which is a free script writing platform.

But I prefer a software that allows you to dig deeper into the structure so that you can examine the scenes and all the notes attached to it. The screenshot shows the first level of a presentation I created for planning my movie scripts. It's basically a digital representation of the corkboard concept, but with one important difference. A mouse click on any circle will expand it to show more detail, such as a list of seams in that beat, some images, or even a clickable URL to other resources on the internet to help you in writing your script. In Section three, you will learn how to create and use such a template and how to copy it and use it for all your movie script organization.