From Reel to Deal, Part 1

From Reel to Deal, a couple chapters I read discuss the importance of a script. Simens also offers ways to test it. He tells a lot of things point blank and spares no hurt feelings. Which I think you should do when choosing a career in life. If it’s not for you, it’s not for you. Like, if you can’t write dialogue, it just won’t happen because it is a natural talent. He suggested testing yourself by covering names of characters. The goal was that the dialogue wouldn’t be so dry that you can identify a type of personality to that character. He said you also when you read a script that you should always be reading it fast and easily. Everything should flow nice and smooth. If reading is boring or what is written does not progress the story or serve some form of purpose, than it is not good. If you write a comedy you should be laughing out loud, not just smiling. He keeps saying you should go for great not good. If an agent tells you it’s good but won’t accept it, then it really wasn’t good. You need to rewrite, expect changes to happen to your work. Writers should attend writing workshops and leant the Hollywood writing formula. You need a great idea not a good one to make money. Lots of people have ideas, the ones that package it in the best-selling way make it. Hollywood markets films, they do not make films according to Simens