Post by account_disabled on Jan 6, 2024 6:30:41 GMT
Days ago I had an idea for a post: talking about cinematographic treatment in creative writing. While I read up here and there on the web, I discovered that writing a film is not that different from writing a novel. To write a film screenplay there are different methods, from what I've seen. There are those who skip the ladder, for example, those who put it before the treatment and those after. Searching in English, then, you will find even other methods. I wrote down the various elements of film writing and compared them with their narrative counterparts, when they existed, and I also added a few elements. The result was an interesting and in my opinion also functional path for writing a novel. Above all, I realized that I had started this very path for my famous K, which every now and then I dust off from the folder in which it rests.
Index Idea and logline Premise Plot and synopsis Subject Treatment Ladder Drafting Idea and logline Last week we saw that an idea is not enough to write a novel , but we need a strong idea. An idea that can Special Data compete with all those in circulation in bookstores. An idea that can attract the attention of a publishing house or potential readers if we choose self-publishing. Remember the concept of loglines ? It was one of several editorial marketing methods we discovered last month. The idea should start right from the logline . Let's now read the loglines of 3 famous films. The logline of the film Pirates of the Caribbean An adventure in the Caribbean Sea in the 17th century where the cunning but charming Captain Jack Sparrow joins a young blacksmith in a gallant attempt to rescue the daughter of the Governor of England and reclaim his ship.
The logline of the movie Titanic A boy and a woman from different social classes fall in love aboard an ill-fated sea voyage. The logline of the movie ET A little boy bonds with an extraterrestrial child who was abandoned on Earth; the boy challenges the adults to help the alien contact the mothership, so that he can return home. Compared to many of my ideas, these “logline ideas” have all the characteristics of becoming good stories. Just to give an example, my idea for a story like ET would have simply been “the son of an extraterrestrial was abandoned on Earth”, but this sentence does not contain a story. This is why in the first step on writing a novel I wanted to combine the idea with the logline , because the logline already contains the story. If we can transform a simple idea into a logline , we have already come a long way. The length of a logline is a few lines.
Index Idea and logline Premise Plot and synopsis Subject Treatment Ladder Drafting Idea and logline Last week we saw that an idea is not enough to write a novel , but we need a strong idea. An idea that can Special Data compete with all those in circulation in bookstores. An idea that can attract the attention of a publishing house or potential readers if we choose self-publishing. Remember the concept of loglines ? It was one of several editorial marketing methods we discovered last month. The idea should start right from the logline . Let's now read the loglines of 3 famous films. The logline of the film Pirates of the Caribbean An adventure in the Caribbean Sea in the 17th century where the cunning but charming Captain Jack Sparrow joins a young blacksmith in a gallant attempt to rescue the daughter of the Governor of England and reclaim his ship.
The logline of the movie Titanic A boy and a woman from different social classes fall in love aboard an ill-fated sea voyage. The logline of the movie ET A little boy bonds with an extraterrestrial child who was abandoned on Earth; the boy challenges the adults to help the alien contact the mothership, so that he can return home. Compared to many of my ideas, these “logline ideas” have all the characteristics of becoming good stories. Just to give an example, my idea for a story like ET would have simply been “the son of an extraterrestrial was abandoned on Earth”, but this sentence does not contain a story. This is why in the first step on writing a novel I wanted to combine the idea with the logline , because the logline already contains the story. If we can transform a simple idea into a logline , we have already come a long way. The length of a logline is a few lines.