For instructional purposes only. Simply sharing my experience. This is how I build stories... What's good, sexy screenwriters! Here are Character Categories for MAD MOUNTAIN and how we got here. 1. One page with headline title, genre, premise statement, logline and synopsis. 2. Beat Sheet with major turning points to include opening and closing images. 3. Hero Goal Sequences Paradigm breaks our story into 20 Sequences. 4. Character Categories. 5. Up next week are Individual character profiles.... We'll stare at the HGS board and these Prewrite Materials for a week while writing profiles. I can already see and explain the entire movie to our actors using the HGS Board. We had a board read last night. The actor was impressed! He's never seen a screenwriter pitch a movie off 20 index cards, without writing a word of the script. This is where you wanna be. If we don't blow the doors off the creatives around us, we will not impress Hollywood, I assure you. We'll start writing actual pages of the script FEB. 1. The goal is to write the first draft in one month.... Hope this helps. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Stage32 works if you work it
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Thanks for sharing, Shawn!
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Thanks for being you, Elisabeth!
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Thank you so much for your selfless posts. I look to you, a perfect blend of passion, fearlessness and expertise. You are quite rare. I have been keeping up, preparing, editing the screenplays I have in the works.
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More gold.
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@Dan Maxxx. Nobody is smoking his ass. Shawn is what every filmaker/writer should be; getting knowledge and giving it freely. :)
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@Dan Don't call Shonda, but Universal Pics, Columbia, Warner Bros, Clint Eastwood and all who matches this line... I think THAT would be helpful for Shawn. :))