Ep179: The 3 Types and 5 Rules of Screenwriting

Writer Craft Podcast

Main Topic: 5 Rules of Screen-Writing (starts at 18:23)

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Segment 4 (Main Topic):

• Simple medium portraying sound and describing action.
• Slug line (interior, office, morning)
• Action (Erick sits at his computer, talking into a microphone, recording a podcast.)
• Character (ERICK: dialogue)
• Action (Erick removes his earbuds, the meeting ends)
• **
• 3 kinds of screenplays
• On Spec: rough draft/outline
• Producer changes it to Shooting screenplay (adds relevance and his "stamp" on it, adds over-shoulder camera angle, etc)
• Production draft (cuts, fades)

**

1- only write what you can see or is relevant to action. (No thoughts.)

2 - never direct on the page of a spec script. (The art is to plant the seed of what you want.)

3 - one page = one minute of screen time (approximate); no action or dialogue no longer than 3 lines

4 - arrive late and leave early; start a beat before the action and end on motion

5 - All rules can be broken. (Big sin directing on the the page.)

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