What is the format of the movie script? Is it written in detail?

How to write a movie script? Some people know how to write a story, but they don't know that it is an entertainment script. Without these basic knowledge, it is impossible to write a decent script. Some people even call Hollywood movies avant-garde and turn the whole thing upside down.

When you want to write a feature film script, the first thing to consider is whether the story is suitable for screen performance, or from what angle the story is most suitable for screen performance. In addition, when you write a feature film script, you should make a clear distinction. There is a big difference between telling stories and writing characters. We always confuse it. In fact, in our movie scripts and movies, there are only movies that tell stories, but there are no movies that show characters' personalities. These two films are completely different.

In a story-telling film, his role is not a real role, but just a catalyst to promote the development of the story. These characters cause conflicts, but his purpose is not to reveal the characters' personalities through conflicts, but to promote the development of stories and finally solve conflicts. Ordinary audiences like to hear you tell such a beautiful story. Please note that there are no real people here, only stereotyped and typical people. Usually it doesn't exist. Without blood and flesh, this stereotyped figure, like a walking corpse, has walked through any film of the same type. I won't give examples of domestic films here. Just look at the cowboys in Hollywood westerns and the detectives in gangster movies. It's the same in any film of this type, just as the leading actor of Hollywood westerns said, "For seven years, only horses and women have been changed, and the lines of clothes are the same." The whole kindergarten.

Some film critics in Chinese mainland, China are frantically looking for roles in this entertainment film. Another narrative film focuses on portraying characters, and there are also conflicts between them. But the purpose of this story conflict is not to promote the development of the story, but to reveal the character. Movies that focus on characters are certainly more upscale, because after all, all art is about people themselves. People who only know how to tell stories don't need to take part in this discussion that focuses on revealing the characters' personalities, because you can't understand them.

Let's go back to study. The movies that mainly tell stories are all the same, just a few episodes, which we call myths. Actually, the myth is inaccurate. The word myth comes from Greek and is spelled as myth in English. We in China translated it into myth, which means telling stories. We in China translated it into a myth because the story of ancient Greece is the story of the gods, so it became a myth, but it is actually a story. We should make it clear that the purpose of telling stories is not to entertain the audience. The initial mourning of storytelling is that the old people should carry forward the beliefs of their communities and tribes to their descendants. Then the best way is to tell a beautiful story to young people. Everyone likes to listen to stories, and this traditional belief will be passed down with stories. For example, it is a belief that good is rewarded with good and evil with evil. In fact, this is not the case in life. Another example is that people believe that the family is the smallest social unit, so no matter how debauched a man or a woman is, she will eventually get married. We say this is a Puritan belief, so it is impossible for Hollywood movies to have no lovers. Smart people in a tribe or a community have come up with a good way to make this belief into a beautiful story and tell it to fools, so they pass on this belief through fools who love to tell stories, but now, money seems to be more important than faith. Because ordinary audiences like to listen to stories, businessmen know that telling a beautiful story to ordinary audiences can make a lot of money. Ordinary audiences regard watching movies as entertainment, so there is no preaching in entertainment films. A good producer once said, "Are you going to preach?" Rent an audience "is so clear-headed. A good boss once said that" sending messages is the business of the telegraph office "and he is a clear-headed person who can do business, so on the surface, watching entertainment films is only for ordinary audiences, but it is actually meaningful. What he means is that good is rewarded, evil is rewarded, and good ends are rewarded. In fact, it gave you this belief through a beautiful story, but it didn't preach or send a telegram, so some people think that the Hollywood movie Titanic is not unreasonable.

This is how entertainment films are produced. In fact, entertainment films are by-products of storytelling. The purpose of telling stories is not to entertain but to be conservative, but now it seems the other way around. Myths are never stagnant. Not to encourage development, but to maintain the status quo. In addition, telling a movie story and telling a beautiful movie story requires a set of methods. On my website, people often post scripts for everyone to see, and some people ask me to talk about movies, but I didn't tell them, because I think if you don't even know the language of movies, what movie scripts do you write? Even if I talk about how to write a movie script, you won't really understand what I'm talking about. It won't help you either. To be honest, I only read a few lines of these scripts, because what I want to see is not even whether you have written anything visual. The description in the novel is also audio-visual. I'm looking at the angle. Your play is made up of materials. The same story told by the blind is different from that told by the deaf. Although the blind man may use several visual sentences when he speaks, he doesn't really see them, so we hear them as soon as we hear them. This is not right. What I'm looking at is whether the person who wrote the script has audio-visual thinking ability. The so-called film writing skills are not ordinary skills. They are different from drama writing and novel writing. They are based on audio-visual thinking. When learning audio-visual language, we should study how to use light and harmony to reflect the time and space of movies. These assignments are general basic training. But when we further study feature films, when we study the time and space of feature films, as I said before, feature films are divided into narrative feature films and character feature films, so what is the time and space of narrative feature films used for? It is used to tell stories, so we say that in a narrative-oriented film, his time and space are subordinate to narrative.

People who haven't studied audio-visual language will be puzzled by the sentence "its time and space are subordinate to narrative". Although some people will follow the fashion of time and space, time and space are intertwined, in fact, they don't know how time and space are expressed, and they don't even know that the time and space of movies are based on the illusion of the viewers.

Of course, at this point, everyone seems to have come to a conclusion: to write a script for an entertainment film, we must first master the audio-visual language of the film. That's true, but it's impossible for a screenwriter to write a script directly in audio-visual language. Some people like to use some terms, there is no need to put them away and push them. For a film writer, the most important thing is to use audio-visual thinking when conceiving. At least he should know what the space-time structure reflected by light and harmony is, so that what he wrote can be photographed.

What I said earlier is the general requirements. When I wrote it in detail, I found that some people wrote it wrong. This is an entertainment film, not an art film. Entertainment films are only for the entertainment of the audience. You'd better write them backwards. When you come up with a beginning, you should consider the end and how you intend to end it. That's all that matters. American star Betty Weiss said that it doesn't matter if I'm not in front, as long as I'm there in the last fifteen minutes. They all got the hang of it. You should first figure out how to give the audience a feasible and touching ending, and then you can write it back, so that you can control the situation, so that it won't go away at the end, and it's not easy to make loopholes in the plot. Because he writes backwards, his development is reasonable, so you can control everything.

There is also the importance of scenario setting. It is impossible to rely on actors' performances in movies, and the risk is too great, because there are very few stars who are really qualified to do film performances, and the interference of photography, recording, editing, art design and shooting order makes actors' performances fragmented. What's more, your script is not about characters, but a catalyst to promote the development of the plot, which is different from a stage play. If it weren't for Shakespeare's famous plays, the general audience wouldn't like to watch them at all, so the clever screenwriter spent his energy on setting the situation. If the situation is reasonable and can make people cry (I'm not talking about actors), then Tom, Dick and Harry are all the same, but the situation is at work and the audience doesn't know it. For example, in the film industry in China, many people insist that Yan Nanfei, a famous actor, plays well. Damn it, if you study the scene setting of Wild Goose Flying South, you will understand why the general audience, including those laymen, think that this actress can act, and scene setting is also a good way to make stars. You don't have to use stars. As long as your situation is well set, the image of the actor you choose conforms to the trend, and your publicity will make her a star. China can't make a star, and even professionals in China are holding a star, which is ridiculous. A Hollywood star said well, "When you are a star, you walk through the front door with roses, and when you are no longer a star, you sneak out the back door with trash cans." Professionals who are superstitious about stars are stupid. Learn how to set the situation, learn how to brew stars, and let those little stars take the trash can through the back door.