Scenario Writing for the Movies
write movie stories; and that is where the actor has the advantage over the outsider who tries to write scenarios with no practical knowledge of how movies are really made.
First write your plot into a five hundred or thousand word synopsis, just as you would write it for a maga- zine. Make it brief and clear. Be sure it is based upon action, mental or physical, and try to give real character to your plot people. In choosing your story be sure it has the dramatic quality. It must not be rambling ; and it must have an element of conflict between opposing factors a man and a woman, a woman and her Destiny, or simply Good and Evil which leads up to a crisis in which the matter is fought out and finally settled. Stories which have not these qualities are suitable for novels, perhaps, but not for plays.
It is, as a general rule, inadvisable to
