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How to avoid overwriting in your screenplays
Summary
Beginning screenwriters (and some more experienced) desperately want readers to be able to visualize the movie as they read their script. It is the guide, the blueprint, and it's natural to feel that getting it depends on the imagery painted by our words. Often vivid, detailed imagery.
The result? There end up being too many words on the page.
In this 45 minute seminar, award winning screenwriter Hank Isaac will show us how to crack open the door to writing lean prose in a way that projects your film visually in the heads of your readers without choking them on words.
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Hank Isaac is a screenwriter and filmmaker who has enjoyed a varied career. He began writing feature films in 1994 and was mentored by the late legendary Stewart Stern (Rebel without a Cause, Sybil).
He started directing in 2006 and since then, he and his work have been "Official Selections" in over one hundred international film festivals and awards competitions and have won more than fifty awards. Additionally, his screenplays and teleplays have been finalists in more than three dozen writing competitions.
Hank Isaac's Website: https://www.hankthewriter.com
He started directing in 2006 and since then, he and his work have been "Official Selections" in over one hundred international film festivals and awards competitions and have won more than fifty awards. Additionally, his screenplays and teleplays have been finalists in more than three dozen writing competitions.
Hank Isaac's Website: https://www.hankthewriter.com
More about this webinar
A few of the things Hank will cover in this webinar:
- Writing lean does not mean simply using fewer words.
- A screenplay is more like a piece of music than a piece of writing. Why? How?
- What to say and what not to say.
- It's all a conversation.
- Questions are better than answers.
- Forget what you learned in school.
- Get to the point, already!
- So what?
- Tips from a former reader.
What others have to say...
-- Devorah Steinecker
Fantastic webinar. I learned a lot!
-- Phillip Frydendall
Excellent webinar! I had some of what I've been taught reinforced, some of what I've been taught updated/corrected. Some minor things in the webinar I do not subscribe to in terms of formatting, but overall it was very interesting and very informative. I also appreciate Mr. Isaac's offer to cover the first page of a script. I will take him up on that offer!!
-- Paul Kahn