‘Specs’ are generally written by aspiring screenwriters to establish their talent as a writer; or a card to direct the movie themselves. So, the intention is to impress the reader – a producer or a representative or sometimes a prospective director or an actor. And...
When aspiring screenwriters connect with me for various academic and industrial reasons, they ask me what it means a script and a screenplay.Are they the same? Though both the names come under the same classification of writing for the screens, there is a slight...
In this segment we will look at the two other categories of True stories. 3. “Based on” True Events In this format, what is central to the story line is a historical event, a story is then built around this with the use of fictional characters. While the names,...
True stories make for the biggest “box office hits “in Indian cinema, second only to those based on Intellectual Property. Let’s dig deeper into the finer aspects of both the genres, understand how one approaches the story telling in order to adapt it to screen and...
Ideas propel creativity, they are the starting point of any action. In story telling it is the culmination of many ideas that lend to the elements of a well meshed story. It’s an idea that first motivates the characters, as those ideas...
