Tip #7

Here's an exercise I've used to help me when I get stuck.

Write down the story for your movie and an outline for it using only the memories you have of it in your mind. Do not rely on any written notes you have about it. The purpose of this exercise is that it will get you to focus on the main storyline of your script and gets down your key points and important details. Then you can go back to your previous written notes and see what's important from them that you also want to include - you may find there's a lot in your previous notes that is not really significant and that you can actually exclude it from your new outline. Also remember every thing in your script should point towards the main storyline and build up to the climax!

write the summary again from memory every once in a while - in the outlining phase because while you're writing it new ideas for what happens will come to you as well as snippets of dialogue and new scenes to add!

See ya next week,
Simon
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