What Now?

Screenplays have rules that screenwriters use to tell stories. I started by looking at what Wikipedia had to say about what goes into a screenplay. You can check it out here too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenplay.

This website, lilacflows.com is the script

FOR THE MOVIE …

HOW WE MET

A screenplay by Lisa Elin Baker Figge

HOW WE MET is an autobiographical romance drama. A LOVE STORY FOR THE FAMILY.

GENRE and THEMES

are at the links above.

Blocking is the movement of the characters, and staging is the camera movement.

SCENES ARE SHORT MOVIES MADE UP OF BEATS.

Below is a slug line. It is written in all caps. The first section uses a three-letter designation for inside (INT) or outside(EXT) or both (INT/EXT). The middle section designates the location of the action, and the third section tells the time the scene takes place.

INT. LOCATION – TIME

HOW WE MET is a feature-length film.

Each page equals about a minute of screen time. That is about 90-120 pages.

Below find a beginning list of pages and the scene titles. Most are just standing in for what I will write.

Now that we have a rudimentary understanding of what formatting for a screenplay looks like all that is left is the writing of the story.

Thanks for reading!