Things You'll Need:
- Computer with word processing or script software
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Step 1
Begin by logline by revealing the movie’s premise. What are the major complications in your story? What does your hero want and what is the major obstacle in his path? Write this is a sentence. For example: he wants to recover the family inheritance that was stolen from him by his brother.
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Step 2
Describe the action that your hero takes to overcome his obstacles. Again do this in a single sentence. He kidnaps his brother.
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Step 3
Describe the hero's crisis and the dangerous complications that arise from his actions. Everyone is out to get him and he has no one he can trust.
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Step 4
Hint at the climax, the final showdown, and the hero’s transformation at the end of the movie. Don’t spell this out in detail. Make the reader want to read your script.
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Step 5
Identify the sizzle in your movie--sex, greed, humor, danger, thrills, satisfaction. Specify the genre. Is it a thriller, mystery, comedy or romance? Write all this in present tense and no more than three sentences. Most professional scriptwriters agree that, "If you can't say it in three sentences, you don't know what your script is about." Think of the movie you've been writing the script for, and then breathe life and personality into those three sentences.
