How Professional Screenwriters Outline
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A look into how professional filmmakers and screenwriters outline and structure their stories before writing. This is motivation for all aspiring screenwriters.
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Filmmakers featured in order of appearance:
00:30 Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad)
00:50 Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds)
02:48 Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, The Master)
03:16 Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation)
04:22 Coen Brothers (Fargo, No Country for Old Men)
04:43 Rian Johnson (Knives Out)
05:35 Greta Gerwig (Little Women, Lady Bird)
06:03 Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network)
06:36 Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)
07:23 Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine, Toy Story 3)
09:35 M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Split)
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コメント (21)
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Every writer seems to have their own style. There isn’t a wrong way to write a script as long as it’s good.
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You did Tarantino dirty with the "foot fetish" part 😂😂😂
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“It’s the fastest way to kill all my ideas” Man, this hit the nail on the head. As soon as you start trying to rationalise and logic out an exciting idea, you only see the problems and not the potential.
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You know you’ve watched too many film essays and interviews when you’ve heard most of the audio clips before and even know where some of them are from.
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The important part of these videos is how different every approach is. I beat myself up from time to time that I'm not approaching my writing in the "right" way (especially in terms of outlining), but the important thing to remind yourself is that processes vary and as long as the end product is a finished script then there is no wrong way to make your first step toward that goal.
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"You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it" - Thomas Harris
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Structure is everything to me. I have ideas in my head but without a skeleton to put them on I just have a bucket of random organs
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I like Tarantino's and Alex Garland's and Rian Johnson's idea's on outlining. I might actually try some of these.
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I read a book where academy award winners talked about writing. One thing I noticed is that no one did it the same way.
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Essentially: there is a method to the madness, yet being too methodical is madness.
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I like Alex Garland's idea of writing out the story line by line, and then replacing each line with a scene.
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When Quentin Tarantino said you know the characters, they're in your blood was really touching. Great video for emerging screenwriters.
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So many young filmmakers don’t follow the most basic rules of structure cause their heroes didn’t and became celebrated for it, but the truth is even they had to start with the basics of scene and movie structure before they played around with it. Love this vid.
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Outline or not, I think the most important thing is to know you're characters. I always start with characterisations, contradiction characters with similiar goals but different methods. Then it basically writes itself.
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HAHA the Tarantino checklist!! I love it.
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NGL, but Alex Garland's method of writing is fucking amazing. I'll definitely be doing this...
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I just love hearing how they’re all different from one another. It shows that it all really comes down to personal preference. You just gotta try out a bunch of techniques and see what ends up clicking for you
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I think writing a script is a hugely personal process and everyone seems to have their own methods. Hearing other people's process is always nice, especially if you're struggling to find your own.
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I love Quentin's idea of a checklist. An outline seems far too concrete. As writers, we do not know anything about our story until we're in it.
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Gilligan explains things really well. Simple, to the point, and useful.
