01/03/2025
▪ The tools that are useful for the research and development of writing are film/TV programs, videos/DVDs, broadsheet newspaper, scripts, the internet, writers group and university course.▪ Genre is a French word that means 'type'. The sequence of events that occur in a story is called a plot.▪ According to Syd Field "Without conflict, there is no drama". Conflict arises from situations, but more importantly from character and should be present in every scene.▪ Story means all of the elements contained within the narrative, in chronological order. In other words, everything that happens to all of the characters placed in a straight line through time. The plot is how the writer chooses to order the story elements; intercutting man plots and sub-plots, and incorporating flashbacks, flash-forwards, etc. if necessary.▪ The themes of a script are about emotion. Your primary task as a screenwriter is to convey the emotional impact of your script to a reader.▪ At the heart of your script are your characters, and you are god, with the power of life or death over them.▪ Two characters have locked horns in the majority of fiction films since the early days of narrative cinema. These are the good guy and the bad guy; properly the Protagonist and the Antagonist, popularly the Hero and the Villain.▪ The smallest unit of dramatic action is a scene.▪ Treatment is usually written when the final draft script is ready for marketing.▪ The most fearsome necessary evil for a writer is the script pitch.
