Sunday Picture Post 7 / Tip: Value
For The Sunday Picture Post, we are going to flip upside-down the saying: “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Thousands of words are great if you are writing a novel, but if you are writing a screenplay, you need to do the opposite and be as concise as possible.
Each Sunday I will post a picture. For your screenwriting practice in brevity, in the comments section, please post one or all of the following:
- 1 word describing the theme, mood, or scene
- 1 sentence to describe the scene
- A pitch to sell the entire movie
The more colorful and creative you are, the better! Use any genre.
A good screenwriter is laconic, using a few words to say a lot.
SCREENWRITING TIP OF THE DAY: VALUE
As they say, anything of great value does not come easy.
Imagine working three years to save up for something special that you want. Now imagine someone giving you that very same thing ten minutes after you had conjured the want. The same item would not have the same value to you. It matters how hard you work for it.
Think about dating, people always want the challenge or the person they can’t have.
Monumental structures are not built in a day, they cost enormous amounts of money and often, human life.
For your monumental career, you must have patience, deal with setbacks, and forge ahead to greatness.
When times get tough and you want to give up, just remember that once you succeed, the reward will be equivalent to how hard you have worked for it.
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Word– TRUTH
Sentence– Kem-Biee, reflects at the falls, as he has every morning since he was a boy and saw the four safari hunters, who cured his mysterious fever, plunge to their deaths.
Pitch– A native boy was spared from death by three men and a woman who were on safari from halfway around the world. Now, as a man, he must discover the TRUTH that links those four people to his ultimate destiny.
1. Peaceful.
2. The waterfall symbolizes the subtle power of nature.
3. “What if something very powerful came after you”
Actualize
As the mist from the falls danced across his skin, a feeling previously unknown to Ashune, lifted him, as he realized the dream of his father.
Retracing the steps of his father, stolen from his homeland to work the fields of the white man in America, Ashune learns not only of his ancestry but how the power of faith and forgiveness can change a man.
lol, this was brutal! thank god this isn`t how I make my living, or we`d be eating cat food.
NANU. Welcome to our little film play land! That was beautiful; you did a great job with it.
NCEDDIE, REEL NINJA, and NANU — You all did really well with this one. I love how 2 of you even gave the man a name.
1. Reverence
2. He had visited the waterfall many times before, in awe of it’s power, in reverence to the legend of the spirit that was contained within. Today, as he felt the mist, envelope his body, he tried to work up the courage to ask the spirits for the council, he so desperately needed.
3. A young man learns lessons of growing up from legends of his forefathers and through his own observations and his curious nature.
PATTY — Am sensing a writer in the room! I like it.
lol perhaps a writer (with bad grammar and spelling).
Always wanted to do a book but never got any brilliant ideas. Oh well, perhaps someday.