
Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay

Even if your characters don't know a certain thing yet, it's usually a waste of time to show them being told the information, so try to find a way to imply they know it or show them learning it in a way that does not rely on dialogue.
Daniel Calvisi • Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay
your goal is make the Reader feel the same emotion as they read the script as the Audience will feel when they watch the movie.
Daniel Calvisi • Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay
Remember not to be afraid to Get Extreme! And, as always...be elegant.
Daniel Calvisi • Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay
There's nothing a reader likes more than a tight script -- with a lot of white space that’s easy to breeze through!
Daniel Calvisi • Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay
CLIMAX (page 105-110):
Daniel Calvisi • Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay
Use as few words as possible. But make them the BEST words.
Daniel Calvisi • Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay
END OF ACT ONE EVENT/TURN & DECISION (page 25-30):
Daniel Calvisi • Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay
If I had to point to one element that separates studio films from independent films, it would no longer be the use of an anti-hero, it would be the dark or ambiguous ending.
Daniel Calvisi • Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay
this happens which forces our hero to make this decision which leads to this confrontation, which is resolved in this way.