Aamir Anjum: Screenwriter and script consultant in Mumbai, India.

Aamir Anjum
Indian Writers

Hi, I am in look out for notes on my recently written script. The script has usage of colloquial Hindi in dialogues, hence I am in look out for Indian screen writers on stage 32 who are interested to help me out.

Evelien And Dorien Twins

maybe you can try reaching out through the job section? You can specify exactly what you need and are looking for so people who meet those criteria can apply to it? https://www.stage32.com/find-jobs...

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Aamir Anjum

Thanks Evelein and Dorien

thank you Aamir. you have mentioned about short film structure. do watch my short film 'last number' and let me know if you like it. https://youtu.be/T8nRt9-4I1I?list=PLATAlvTQfcFng57IC9DcODGhTSiVauKgp...

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Aamir Anjum
Short Film Structure

Hi fellow writers, I have written two shorts and have failed at getting the structure right. Can some one help me out with the structure for a short film script ?

Danny Manus

have a beginning, middle and end. thats aboit all the structure you need in a short. just tell a story.

M L.

The biggest challenge with short films is how to end it. Some bad short films have no ending. They just stop. And it's all too obvious that it's a scene from something larger. A really good short film...

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Tushar K Bandyopadhyay

Thanks for connecting me.

Sridip Duttagupta

Hi Aamir, thanks for connecting me. Hope someday we can work together.

Aamir Anjum
Shoot in Car

I am planning to shoot a complete short in a car. There are primarily two characters who are travelling during the night. Can you help with any of experiences or references that might help me with shot selection. What I am looking for : 1. Types of shot to be avoided 2. Its a low budget short, hence...

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Glenn Roland

Hi Aamir. Put picture car in dark parking lot. Keep the car parked and have grips rock the car as talent pretends to move steering wheel and self. Camera should have some movement panning and tilting...

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Aamir Anjum
India - Film Funding

Can anyone guide me on the funding scenario of Short films in India ?

Aamir Anjum

1.Shoot my second short film 2. Aplly in a film school for MFA in screenwriting 3. Publish/self publish my first book ( 2nd draft completed) 4. Read the top 100 AFI scripts 5. Will try to gather courage to pitch online

Victor Titimas
Please help...complicated technical question...:)

In one of my screenplays, the character turns on the TV, where there is an interview. The next scene(EXT. STREET - NIGHT) is set on the interview's location, next to a restaurant. It features the celebrity and the paparazzi and the things they say. Next, the next scene switches back to the character...

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C Peterson

Buy a copy of Screenwriter's Bible. Scene within a scene. Like this: INT. KITCHEN - DAY Martha slices bread at the counter , then pastes it with marmalade. ON THE TV an interview between a REPORTER an...

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Laurie Ashbourne

You can set up the living room scene, then set up the street scene, and after that just say INTERCUT - This makes for a much cleaner read and allows the editor to do what they do best.

Aamir Anjum

Each show has its own casting theme. Use it to inform the reader without giving an additional introduction (as a particular theme music or even voice over) while the camera is fixed on the main charac...

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Aamir Anjum

"INSPIRING" - Thanks for letting me reassure - " Success comes to those who continue to travel on bleeding toes "

David Rountree

I appreciate you taking the time to read the blog and I am happy that it was inspiring. Your quote is right on.

Aamir Anjum
American Hustle - Character tussle

Hi everyone , just finished watching the movie - American Hustle . It was a great movie but not the epic types , just after I finished the movie I was asking myself what doesn't make it great for me. I arrived to the following conclusions , throw in your views to help me broaden my vision 1. The tim...

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Aamir Anjum
Dramatic premise and key incident

I have just started on my basics of screenwriting and I have messed myself with the help of Google on difference between dramatic premise and key incident . From my current understanding I have the following doubts 1. Does the dramatic premise sets the story in motion whereas the letter establishes...

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Kerry Douglas Dye

Dramatic premise is just a concept. The inciting incident actually happens in your script. The inciting incident in Jaws is a shark attack. The dramatic premise is, "so there's this shark, see..."

Aamir Anjum

So its a mere concept not an actual scene which one can point to right...

Dave McCrea

yeah like Kerry said, the premise is a summary of the concept, the situation the protagonist is in. the inciting incident is just the first thing that happens to the protagonist in that act 1 that sta...

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Ian Lynch
Putting songs in screenplays

Okay, I've got a question that I need help with. I'm writing a script that has a scene where two characters play a song they've written together. It acts as a bonding moment between the two. How do I write something like that into the script? It's not a musical. It just happens to be two muscians pl...

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Allen Lawrence

I wouldn't put it in at all unless you are a seasoned writer that also writes lyrics. No matter how good you are leave the song out and just describe, they brows into song... They look in each other's eye... Describe the bonding etc.

Michael Lee Burris

It's not that hard here is an example. INT- ANY THEATER- ANY PLACE- ANY TIME Dick and Jane are backstage. Holding hands and smiling they walk upon the big stage waving to the crowd under the bright li...

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Aamir Anjum

watch " khuda ke liye" a Pakistani movie - there is a particular scene when the protagonist moves to USA in search of music and finally ends up composing a song which pictures him and his future half bonding up. " Bandya ho " - Name of the song , available on youtube

Aamir Anjum

Hi , i am not someone from US . I belong to India where I can still say our movie stars are being worshiped but the craze for Hollywood has dwindled . The major reason is Television series which has made these stars suffer . The reason behind why people prefer series from movies, apart from the econ...

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Derek Ladd

Very good point. I often spend months at a time watching nothing but series because I can't find any movies I want to watch. Now I'm back to movies, but I rarely spend the money to watch them in theaters and almost never buy them on DVD.

Derek Ladd

"...includes the rubbish big-name "movie stars" commit themselves to." Well said. You can add 'big-budget' to that as well. 'The Lone Ranger' comes to mind... ;-D

Aamir Anjum
Lets get started

Kindly suggest some quick reads for screenwriting . P.S- Just started to write

Aamir Anjum

Thanks everyone

Carlos Santellanes

The Screenwriters Bible by David Trottier - A great reference book!

David Rountree

My favorite and, hands down the best one I've read, is Save the Cat. Works the formula to get the script sold. It's worked for me for 5 films now.

Aamir Anjum
Corruption of Ideas

when I decide to write something , its usually based on Impulse . I start to ponder over the issue , the story line and the characters to make my first "mind draft" . But after a chat with my friend and listening to advice of screen writers I have been confused and skeptic over the methodology sugge...

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louis phillips

Is that really about the task...and why is screenwriting, different, to writing. the core is the same. Something is not borrowed but felt. In fact. where do things begin.With you? Or are you a reitter...

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Cherie Grant

All writing these days is borrowed. You may not remember, but you will have seen or read it elsewhere and been influenced.

Aamir Anjum

Cherie getting influenced on a sub conscious level is logical and natural . You cant just shut your mind window because of the fear of getting it corrupted or influenced . But reading or researching on someone else s matter is consciously copying .

Aamir Anjum

Thanks Debbie for the invite

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Richard "RB" Botto

Hi Aamir. I'm RB, Founder and CEO of Stage 32. As an actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker, I know first-hand the challenges all creatives face finding work and attracting attention to their projects. That's why we created Stage 32. Since our launch in September of 2011, the community has grown to 250,000+ members strong representing every country on the planet making Stage 32 the social network uniquely populated with the most creative people on Earth. This is a network for you, built by you. Like most things in life, the more you participate, the greater the rewards. We ask all new members pay...

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