A revelation...

I always believe a good movie came from a good script.
I attended a screenplay workshop today and just realized I believe it for the wrong reason !

All three speakers (one of them is hot hot hot!) are the national tv and movie top script writers. I was skeptical at first because local pictures (tv/movies) are notorious for it's unrealistic, patronizing, ridiculous outlook. It turned out they never liked what they were producing.



All of them really know what they are doing but they are powerless against the producers whose dictated by the ratings (which is no longer survey based... apparently every station hook their program to a satellite which will record audiences behaviour). What they make the nation watch is a result of a statistical study !

But the revelation I mentioned is cause now I have a better understanding what a script is for. I used to think it's just another format of a story... a prose !

A good movie came from a good script not because it's a good story but because the script makes the whole film crew literally SEE the story. The script visualize the story.

That's why a good story (novels...etc) could be such a terrible movie. In fact when the story is based entirely on the character's mental activity it will be impossible to be adapted to a script hence got zero chance to be filmed !

In other words... if you write story in hope one day it will be filmed, you gotta make sure it is well visualized.

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Hence... a good book can end up as a terrible movie. I was right ! *poking tongue at Boot*




Yeah right...
*annoyed look*




In a white painted square room with a window facing the garden, Mr. Boot kneels down and finds a burned book on the floor.

He crouched down to grab it, lengthening his right arm and grasps the sturdy edge of the book, slowly moving it to his chest and opens the first page...

Doesn't leave much to the imagination, does it?




That's the artistic challenge. How to show, wihtout personifying...
It's like a long haiku.

I would do it like :

Boot notice a burned book in a white square room with only one window.
He turns pale but approaching anyway.
With the window on his back he looked down to the book doubting before crouching down to grab it slowly.
Wind from the window brushes the edge of the book.
He opened the first page and...

Something like that I guess...
Anyway, found myself a guru on this so I will try to improve.

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