Julie L Gray is the writer of one of my favorite blogs "The Rouge Wave". Her post from 10th of August is realy great. There is such a good example of how not to write. Rather then me quoting her, you can read the article for yourself here:
The Rouge Wave: Bad Action Line, Bad!
I have read many movie scripts. Most of them from amateurs. And all too many from bad amateurs. I have read lines like "He has stayed in the house for all his life, living with his mother." How do we see that? That is a line suitable for a novel. In a movie we must be shown or told through dialog.
I thought that I had overcome these novice misstakes when I got the feedback "How do we know the water is cold?" It is sometimes difficult to avoid, but he was right. I shouldn't write about cold water, I should describe the reaction to the coldness or if no one swims the general appearence of the lake. If it is important that is.
2 comments:
Hi, Desiree,
Not exactly a comment, but something I found that I thought might interest you. It's an NPR piece about Indie film-making and such... I thought it was very intersting: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93387259&ft=1&f=1008
Now, having delivered my little link, I'll go poke about in your blog again!
Linda
Thank you for the link.
It is terrible in a way. How many talents that are wasted just because they don't have enough money to produce themselfs or simply because they are too shy to be visible enough.
Good luck with your poking.
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