Movie Training & Film Making Tips – Volume 10
& Order. Many of the stories they told were actually, as they called it, “ripped from the headlines.”
There is an old saying that truth is stranger than fiction. There are plenty of news headlines each and every day that can inspire a story. We have crime, infidelity, human interest stories, health scares and on and on. During the bird flu outbreak, there was plenty of opportunity for somebody to come up with a movie on some kind of epidemic. And throughout cinema history, there have been plenty of them.
3. Look To History
There have been so many things that have happened in history that are just ripe for story telling. You can go as far back as the bible or as recent as the war in Iraq. How many historical movies have already been made? I can’t count them all. History is always a good place to start.
4. Look To Categories