SCREENPLAY
THE DREAM VS. BUDGET REALITIES
You
wrote a great screenplay. You were dying to go out and shoot it. You
sat down and did a budget breakdown and discovered that Guy Ritchie
would think twice before blowing that much money. In other words you
are a low budget film maker, but you wrote a big budget screenplay.
This
has happened to us all.
The
thing that you are going to have to do is set it aside until you can
afford to make this film and go about writing and producing a film or
two that will help you to raise the money for that script.
You are
going to have to learn how to write a low or micro budget screenplay.
The problem with this is that most film makers only have a few clues
as to how to do this. Limited locations and limited cast members is
part of it, but not the whole story. Because if you are not careful
you will limit yourself right out of writing a quality screenplay.
Instead you will end up with a film that looks and sounds like it was
paid for with food stamps.
The
rules of crafting a great script does not change. In fact you have to
focus more or these fundamental rules when writing your low budget
screenplay.
This is
a chapter from my new audio book on screen writing. If you have an
audible account or a kindle account you can easily check it out
there. Also available on iTunes.
You see that writing a low budget screenplay is not enough. You need to write a quality one. When I started this blog many years ago I wanted to help other film makers while learning as much as I could along the way. I love movies and want to see better and better stories being told. If you go back in time to the 1930's and 40's then jump to the 70's it seems like people did know how to make great films, but since then the secret of steel was left on the battlefield. It is time to get back to making great movies again. Great movies begin with a great script. Over the next few post we are going to talk about writing.
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