Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Screenwriting Step 4

I am going to read some existing screenplays starting of with "Lock, stock and two smoking barrels", written by Guy Ritchie

Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels.

http://sfy.ru/?script=lock_stock

This screenplay was written by Guy Ritchie, I have learned quite alot from this screenplay, starting off with some simple things, when a charecter speaks, there name always has to be in capitals were as i thought there name only had to be in capitals when they are first introduced.
I have also learned that you only have too give the details; "INT" & "EXT", Location and Day & night at the start of every scene and i did'nt exactly know how that worked until i read this screenplay.
In this screenplay the spelling and grammer is perfect which i shall make sure i do in the future in my own screenplays also at the end of the scene it has in capital letters what the editing will be at the end of each scene which i didnt know before i read this.
I have learned quite alot from this screenplay and i did'nt even need to read that much to see how he did his writing, this screenplay is an inspiration to me because it is one of my favourite movies and now i see whatever film it is, you always need to have percise and perfect screenplays before they go into production and just after reading this screenplay i realised how much work is really involved in it and how prepared i should be.

I am now going to read another screenplay called "The Matrix" by Larry and Andy Wachowski.

The Matrix

http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Matrix,-The.html

I read a few segmants of this screenplay and i cant honestly say that i have learnt much more because i had already learnt alot from the first screenplay that i read although i think that in this screenplay the timing for when something happens is alot more specific and the structure is basically the same but the space margins are very well done although the spelling and grammer was alot better in the Lock, Stock and two smoking barells screenplay.

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