Video 1 Transcript
So writing scripts is essential because you're really not going to get the parts you want unless you make them. So here are the tips. I did a film degree at UVU. I had an amazing professor named Alex Nibley. He has a great book if you want to learn about scripts you should read his book. It's called Good Stories Well Told by Alex Nibley. You can find it on Amazon. It's like eight bucks. He also has an Instagram at Cinalysis. C-I-N-A-L-Y-S-I-S. I would check those out for ideas about stories because you can't really write a script unless you know the story. Technical tricks like just get the right software. Get Final Draft. It's like a hundred and something bucks. The last thing is if you can't see it on the screen or hear it through your speakers it doesn't belong in the script. We don't need any internal dialogue nonsense. Just it's a tool.
Video 2 Transcript
Write what you know. The best stories come from your own lived experiences. The most authentic stories come from things that you've lived. So write your lived experiences. Write something that excites you. Write something that lights you up. As an actor, I feel the most connected to the screenplays that I'm writing that I could see myself in a role in or that are coming from a direct experience. Writing is a commitment. It can take time. And so you're going to have more luck with like actually finishing the thing and getting it made if it's a story or a character that really lights you up and like you just feel that like pull to tell this story and get it out into the world. And if you don't feel that pull, it may not be the right story to tell just yet. But I would start with a story that just like moves you so much that there's no other option but to get it out into the world.
Video 3 Transcript
Make it as short as humanly possible. This includes, you might think this is silly, but it's not. Remove all hanging words. So if on the end of a paragraph you have a single, a single word on the next line, shorten your sentences such that you can remove that line and make it shorter. Trust me, it's a thousand times better if you do this. You do that a hundred times, you have a hundred less lines in your script, it's a lot easier to read. Learn to read scripts. Like, go find, I would recommend, find a script, they're available, for a movie you like and read the shooting script and see how that changed. Often things are a little bit different, but read the script. Get used to reading scripts for movies that you like that will help you write better. That's, that's definitely important. Just write scripts. Don't be precious about it. It's like clay.
