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Tips to Make Your Scripts Leap off the Page

Do your descriptions create wonderful pictures and sounds for your readers - or do they let your scripts down? 

Do you imagine wonderful pictures and sounds and yet have problems getting them into the script? Do you know how much and how little to write to get maximum effect? 

Many writers struggle to understand how to make scripts visual and fall into the traps of being either over or under-written. The key rule is a simple but devastatingly effective one.

Visual Tip #1: 

Every Description Must Take The Story Forwards

This is where a film or TV script is totally different from a novel or a play. Without realising it many developing screenwriters write their descriptions like mini novels. This does not work. Screenplay descriptions are not merely economical they actually work differently. 

A good screenplay description will push the story forwards and nothing else. If you specify that a rose is white - there had better be a good dramatic reason for it. If you just decided it would be a nice artistic idea, then it really has to be cut. 

Why? Because a good script reader has to retain everything in his/her head. If you fill your script with irrelevant details, your reader will become overloaded and drop right out of the story. 

However, that doesn't mean you should write no descriptions at all. Movies and TV scripts need to bring the drama to life. Same rule: your descriptions must take your story forwards all through the script.

Become masterful at creating description that brings the drama of the story alive and producers and directors will love you and buy your scripts.  

Tips, Tricks & Secrets

Of course, this mastery must be learned and there are other key areas you need to master to make your screenplay descriptions really burst off the page.

I don't have space to go into them here, but I'll be dealing with all of them in depth and giving you the tools to do it with in future one-day workshops. Click here to check them out.

At Euroscript we are all working industry professionals and our goal is to help everyone to write the best possible scripts. Book now to join us and bring your scripts rapidly and vividly to life.

Charles Harris is an experienced award-winning writer-director for cinema and TV who has worked with top names in the industry from James Stewart to Spike Milligan, Ricky Tomlinson and Alexei Sayle. As script consultant, he has helped writers from Britain, Europe and USA, sat on BAFTA awards juries and lectured on MA courses at London University and London Film School.

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