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>>265057 Read a book to learn formating or just send me your scripts and I'll teach you.
I had no education. I started working on film sets as a PA, then I worked my way up to gaffer and one day I finally got around to writing. Met a few writers who invited me to their writing circles and I just learned from them. The only time you need an education is if you want to DP, of course noone will ever tell you that.
As far as learning, just read some good scripts and start viewing films from a technical perspective, you'll develop an eye for story conventions soon enough. Pay attention to how they write it, you know it's good when you can craft an image in your head. Dialogue might still be hard to imagine, that takes skill, but in time you will pick up on it too. Read the scripts outloud, they are meant to be performed so you will get a better idea of how good it is when you hear it coming out of someone/your mouth.
Dialogue is the hardest thing to do. You can't learn to write good dialogue from reading it, you have to experience it. This is the most ironic part, all around you whenver you have a conversation you are given realistic dialogue, yet on paper it comes off as awful.
Remember, everyone has a story to tell, but that doesn't mean we want to hear it. You have to share your story not tell it. |