Writing Your First Movie Script

Series Summary

Every writer dreams of the big time, making a fortune from their work. One way to do that is write a best-selling novel, which will get you on the talk shows and the book-signing circuit. But writing a book may not be for you. Perhaps you have a great story to tell, and can write natural-sounding dialog, but don't see yourself churning out a 400-page epic. Then movie screen writing could be for you. No need to agonize about every sentence and paragraph transition. Just outline what will happen in your story and give the characters interesting things to say and you're half-way there. Or are you? A successful screenplay follows established rules for formatting and even for plot and character development. Let Expert Village talk you through the details and with your ideas and our knowhow, you'll soon be scripting your own blockbuster hit.

In this series of free screenwriting videos, our experienced Hollywood actor, screen writer and producer tells you how to write a movie script. Ron Becks guides you through each step in the creation of your masterpiece, from creating characters and settings to developing the plot and theme patterns to establishing conflicts and resolutions at just the right time in your movie. Not sure how long your movie script should be? Need help formatting your script to meet the exacting standards of the big studio script readers? Ron has been there and done that in Hollywood, and in these informative clips he shares his knowledge and experience with you.

Video Transcript

"Hi, and welcome to "How To Write a Movie Script". You ever have a great idea for a movie, maybe about your family or you heard a great idea that you think would make a great movie but you just don't know where to start? Most people do but the first challenge is how to put it on paper. How to write a screenplay. Well today, you are going to learn the basic steps, putting you on the road to becoming a movie writer. My name is Ron Becks, I'm a producer of feature films and I've won the Silver Bear Award at the Houston International Film Festival. Here I'm going to give you the basic steps to writing. But, to make a good script really great you may want to contact me for consulting or assessment or I can co-write it with you or I can co-write it for you. I can show you how to write a script or do it for you myself from the beginning till the end. I'm easy to find. You can look up my credentials on www.imdb.com, that's International Movie Data Base.com. OK, let's get started. Here's what I want you to do. Get a few sharpened pencils and a thick note pad and we'll begin."