Writing Screenplays That Sell, New Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Complete Guide to Turning Story Concepts into Movie and Television Deals by Michael Hauge

Author:Michael Hauge
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-04-29T14:00:00+00:00

CHARTING THE SCREENPLAY

For a truly left-brained exercise, chart your screenplay scene by scene. Wait until you’ve done at least a couple drafts of your script before employing this device, because if you get this organized too soon in the process, you run the risk of eliminating all spontaneity from your screenplay. Charting is more effective when you’ve exhausted the brain-storming possibilities of your story and feel too close to your writing to come up with anything new. The chart can then give you a new perspective to stimulate creativity.

First, number the scenes in your screenplay. (This is for your own use; don’t number the scenes in the final draft for submission.) Then, using index cards, sheets of paper, your computer, or large sheets of newsprint, make the following chart, creating a column for each scene in your script.

Begin filling out the chart by putting the appropriate page number after each scene number at the top of the page. For example, if scene 19 begins on page 54 of your script, the top of that column should read: 19 (54).

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