A guide for writers and producers
You are a writer of feature with a good idea, but the difficulty it forms in a script you can sell? You are a producer in grass with a large project but frustrated and confused where to go next?
There are a pile of challenges that appear on the path of the page to the production for the producers and writers: what are the key elements in a success story? What makes it commercial? When you know whether a script is developed enough and ready to show a film director, actor, or a funder? How do you get funded? What are the steps all the way up to the end? and what are the producers of traps must avoid?
Information - information useful, solid - is power. You, as a writer or producer, understand the process of filmmaking more you will be able to shape and refine your project from the outset.
There are essentially four stages in the production of a film: development, preproduction, PRODUCTION and POST-PRODUCTION. Each step is complex, which requires a range of skills and knowledge and an ideal action but first sequence see any development.
Development usually involves a close relationship of work between the writer and producer. This can be considered a kind of marriage, a relationship of some importance, because it is likely that both parties will collaborate for a many years yet. Even writers and producers tend to be very different animals, it is vital that there is a mutual understanding and respect for the talents of others. Writers need to be open and flexible and producers must move slowly at the time, especially if important changes to the script.
Prudent to reports and analysis stage are used to develop the initial script and strengthen history, delete unnecessary or low items and increase its commercial potential by adding things like a touch of comedy, a love interest, action scenes, more suspense and so on.
(You could argue that there is a step before that - the drafting of the first drafts of the writer on his own.) This must not be regardless of the practical and commercial considerations. Writers would be wise to investigate the production and marketing so that the craft of screenwriting, so that they understand their first line which they write for and be aware of the practical constraints such as the number of characters and locations, special effects, stunts and action sequences. Successful writers include all scenarios have a context - the film industry. It is not a novel. (For a script have value - i.e. be an option, sold or produced - it must meet certain commercial criteria.)
Script is the master plan, a set of instructions to the Director, composer, actors, decorator, etc., they can take and implement. It is a bit like a machine with different parts that everyone must be shaped by different highly skilled workers. With a good plan, everyone will have a clear idea of what to do and the overall construction will be very effective.
Many films fall because they have not been sufficiently developed. For example, are vital issues for producers and writers ask at this crucial stage: is the commercial script? Is it developed enough that a player will want to feature it or fund a financial? It is a story that is appealing to an audience of current film? For writers immersed in the process of creation of the characters imagined and intrigue, it is often impossible to take back and take a more objective view, it is vital that the producer has a strong development context and that have a network of readers of script he or she can trust.
Any script at this point is a great success. It may take several drafts, hundreds of hours of writing and discussion, the months and years. If you have this extreme, well, you've covered the first round. Now, breathe deeply and get ready for the next one: pre-production.
Alan denman is a British writer, producer and Director with his own company, tingling Bull Films. He is also a consultant and experienced teacher. More information on him, and how it can be of service to: http://www.finishyourscript.com/. Copyright Alan Denman 2011.
Alan Denman invites you to visit http://www.finishyourscript.com/. Unlike other coaching and consultancy services for producers and writers, FinishYourScript.com offers a comprehensive overview of the entire process of script development until the end of the final film. Years of experience and education Alan bring clarity and distinction for the complex process of cinema. Previous comments, writers and producers: "source of inspiration and information", "very good overview of the process of production", "I have now a much firmer idea of how to move my projects that go and how to be a writer, producer, rather than as a writer with a script to sell".
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