AARON SCREEWRITTING TIPS

 Communicate more in paper than speaking about it, and after reading
that one should say “wow” at the end.
 A screenplay is an in- structural manual for the director.

STRONG CLEAR INTENSION AND OBSTACLE

 The important element in drama.one you have a strong foundation for
intension and obstacle you can play with your characters to create
emotion with your voice in it.
 SOMEBODY WANT’S SOMETHING IS IN THEIR WAY OF GETTING IT.
 Intension-want’s the obstacle-stops the way of getting it.

PRESS ON INTENTION AND OBSTACLE

 Your hero need not win the obstacle they have to try.

HOW TO SHOW INTENTION AND OBSTACLE

 make their why of the intention reasonable, and make sure your
character say what they want by dialogue or through their action’s
 you can also start the scene simply stating the intension no problem,
and the protagonist think that it is going to be a smooth sail and meet
one obstacle after the other.

WHEN TO INTRODUCE INTENTION AND OBSTACLE

 audience relationship to what they are seeing, they give you less time to
get into the story and stick to it, and continue for the next two hours
with your story.
 Audience give you just two minutes to get them into the story if you
don’t you lose me
 Put somebody in stake, make me fear or emote.
 The first 15min should be what your film is going to speak about, if not
going to speak anything or not going to say anything it is not fit to be
screened.

STORY-IDEA
 You don’t have an idea until you use the word’s BUT, EXCEPT, AND
THEN, IF, ALL OF A SUDDEN,
 Once you have the idea you can find the conflict, tone, mood,
atmosphere, characters in them etc.
 The conflict between your characters should get more and more critical
towards the end.
 The first draft or the first act is more important make sure it establishes
all the coming in the film.
 Take more time describing the world of the story which is happening and
the actions of the character speak.

DEVELOP CHARACTER PART 1

 Start with intention, obstacle and tactics, the character is born from
intention and obstacle and what are the tactics that the character uses
to over-come the obstacle is what the character is going to be.
 Don’t write long biographies about characters write their intention and
obstacle from their childhood till date if they are children write from
their birth time.
 The characters are born at the age when the light’s come up, after you
fix the age start with character trait
 Write more human nature character trait about your character.
 You need to have more cinematic moment in your movie to express
character, their intention their obstacle, tactics, mentality, mood
according to the atmosphere etc.
 The goal of the should be very clear for him and the audience.
 List out the things that the character likes and dislikes
 When some disagree about something the argument happens and then
the fight happens, like wise your characters should also be like thing the
anto and proto.
 Fetch out character and their way of handling problem, every body has a
story to tell understand their point of view.
 Study the audience in the theater their way of reacting to the character
and the movie.
 Read the character mechanism notes.
 When you fix your character if he is army major, and you create
dialogues and have a lengthy speech about him saying about his pain in
serving the country and the freedom the soldiers have given us and we
dint utilize it properly, consult is with an army major and rectify certain
stuff if he would deliver a speech in such a situation like this.
 Listen to more inspiration speeches in movie’s spoken by characters you
can get more ideas from them.
 An actor will complete the character pick perfect characters for the role,
it necessarily need not be characters acting in front it can also be
background artist or comedy artist etc.

RESEARCH
 There are two types of research
 1) nuts and bolts research 2) research for finding the movie
 The nuts and bolts are about the piece that is going to join your scene
together and make logistic and connection to each other.
 Research for find the film is about how you want your film to be like, the
tone, mood, the need of the scene, the structure etc.
 Talk to people- you don’t know where your whole film is going to come
from, talk to as many people as possible and read many as possible.
 All your research cannot be added in the movie the best idea which can
be made to a scene and can be added to create a flaw or it keep up with
the flaw.
 When you have a research paper for 400 pages you should know what
to take and what not.
 Most of the actor do research which is also helpful for the directors.
 Researching lines of dialogue, the language specific to the character,
environment, even if it is a computer know programming language.
 the audience need not understand the dialogue in certain places, but the
character should know.
 If you don’t know how will the characters handle the situation in that
moment ask for expert assistance in that moment.
 The truth is more important, you are going to lie through- out the film
at-least keep some true dialogue saying the main theme.
 People don’t speak in dialogue; people’s life don’t play out in a series of
scenes as narratives you can do that….it is the difference between
painting and a photograph.
 If you are telling a true story I won’t do something that will not hurt
someone, something that will change the fundamental truth, concept of
truth.
 You can add something interesting without changing the fundamental
truth.

AUDIENCE
 You should let the audience participate in the opening image of your
film.
 Audience is a component in the event, there is a painting in Chicago
were an artist makes left right stokes with red and blue. Red left and
blue right saying the audience will mix this to violet because when I mix
it is less vibrant when compared to their mind when mixing it.
 You want the audience to be a part of what is going on, the more the
audience put in the things together that’s something they like.
 You want to treat them as if they are smart and they are, if not prove
they aren’t smart. They just don’t want to sit there and be still they want
to put things together.
 But I some scene you have to prove them they are smart and then at the
end got you and they feel aweee I didn’t get that.
 Don’t loose the audience that is the key certain and educate them about
the story each and every moment.
 It is okay to do something that never happen as long as the audience
doesn’t know that it would never happen, things that you really didn’t
notice cannot happen all of a sudden.
 If you don’t give the audience the right information at the right time
and when suddenly things happen you and the explanation you give
should convince them.

 Avoid confusion

 After you watch the film ask yourself if you did understand the story.
 Don’t tell the audience again and gain what they know tell them
something they don’t know.

RULES OF STORY
 Learn the rules of the story- and the best way to learn them is by
watching movies, reading screenplay.
 Select your five best films have their screenplay in your lap, see
how it looks on screen and on the paper.
 Read a lot of play and discuss with others.
 There are certain rules to games and also cinema is game were
there are certain rules.
 Be a diagnostician, whenever you see something ask questions
about them when, why etc.
 If your scene is taking more time in a scene give it a head- line.
 Try to write in past tense and present tense.

STORY VS DRAMA
 Story and drama are two different things.
 Always start with a fact.
 Characters actions are really important, make sure you analyze
the characters in real world and their actions so that you can
change the way you like. And take time more to describe the
actions
 If you show a gun in the first act then you can shoot it in the third
act. The information and the actions that you give and show
should sum up at the last or convince the audience for the
actions from the very beginning the lead them to the end.
 STAKES- you want the stakes to be high as possible.
 And when the stakes are introduced, we care that they fail or
succeed.
 EXPOSITION- it is the first part of drama before you can do
anything else you just got to introduce the things or events,
 actions to the audience and then their ways of handling it
through character sketch.
 You need to have a character who knows more as the audience
does.
 INCITING ACTION- what makes the drama happens.
 Use page number as road signs, you should now be ready to take
a diversion or straight road, left or right be careful of dumps or
speed breakers etc.
 The first 15 pages of your screenplay is really important.
 You should have a kickass first 15 pages if not you miss the
producer.

WRITING HABITS
 Prepare for more months than writing the screenplay.
 Do a lot of research that’s the key to great screenplay secret.
 Start with the first scene- with intention and obstacle.
 Once you write the first scene- make it in index cards and shuffle
them with the structure.
 Always write like yourself and write what you like.
 The more you do it the better your going to get, the more
comfortable you are going to get in your own voice and style.
 Also try writing like someone else and their style of handling the
scene.
 You can also write a scene especially for the music rhythm and
cut.
 FOCUS ON THE PROGRESS- writing and painting are back
breaking. When you are writing make sure you are in the right
mood, because if you are painting it is not needed if you are
writing it is really important.

WRITERS BLOCK
 Do listen to songs, spend more moments in silence, listen to
music.

WRITING A SCENE
 Stories are involved emotion