What Should A Screenwriter Know Before Writing A Screenplay? - Erik Bork

Thanks Film Courage- Erik you are very very good. I'll order your book in next week. It's on my bucket list.. Wow!

Good information. Solid substance as always ✔️

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I'm so glad that they clarify it here in the comments because as a writer, I'm like...OKAYYYYY what should a writer know before writing? How did we get lost in this video?

Hello film courage team! I have a question for you and your guests. If someone has a great idea and script for a movie, how to protect the idea and the script from being stolen? Because this happens all the time.

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Excellent.

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Karen your questions aré gold. Did you got to write a script? I don't want to die without reading it!

I hate it so much when people say that it’s difficult To rate something original. Every movie I write is completely original because I’m so tired of the same old stuff. But the problem is that deep down most film critics and movie gurus secretly like to see the The same old crap where they know what’s gonna happen

I keep watching these videos. I think I mastered the theory of screenwriting by this point....I just never write anything :( Whenever I start, it sounds like crap and like a dead end. It's very disheartening.

The part about the balance of authenticity and story archetypes. I enjoyed, thank you. 👍🏼👍🏼

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Haven't heard that in years! Some oldies are fun to bring back and some slang fads should be buried. 🤣

amazing

I liked what he said about making your subject, and characters relatable. I think he is on point with that statement.

Is original means organic?

We will make it

This guy has a wonderful nack of explaining movies we've all already seen, then explaining nothing in a way that it sounds like he's been helpful.

I love this guy already!

Has this guy wrote a book?
..he should have mentioned it

Did anyone else notice this interview had no cuts?? Impressive...

Innovate...don't recreate the wheel.

I don't know about the central premise. While yes, you don't want to start with a concept that is to large or abstract for the medium of film, isn't writing comedically viable easy to work on scripts kinda what's lead to the current state of film? (Which I believe to be lack luster.) Idk, if you have the talent, I'd say shoot for anything. It would be a waist of said talent go write forgettable shlock for the sake of making money. Especially when you'll just be competing with an army of hacks shooting for the same easily attainable goals.

Carrying a theme throughout your story is one of the hardest skill set to master for a screenwriter. Before you commit to a script give careful and unhurried consideration to whether or not people of different nationalities, cultures, religions, genders and ages will respond to your message. In other words, will it have "universal appeal." A very important consideration when it comes time to market it. How will it play for the youth? Will it fly with the super religious? How will it do in foreign markets like France or Peru? Take time!

THIS IS SO TRUE !!!

For example the hood movies have been done over and over again successfully but each one tells a slightly different story but the core of it is trying to make it out despite the odds. Boys n the hood, menace to society, south central etc. Etc. All basically the same yet different because some focused on father son relationship some focused on friend to friend relationship. Etc

You dont have to re invent the wheel. Many movie scenarios have been done and successfully over and over again. Just throw in something slightly different in the middle that maybe you experienced personally or something.

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How many ads piece of shit video.

Love your videos, but please those ads every 2 mins are distracting at best

who else is feeling motivated??

I appreciate the interviewer challenging Bork to precisely define his argument here, in terms of where it's best to flex one's creativity within one's storytelling.

I had this story that at first i was just thinking about the main two characters like how they would act just out of nowhere i started thinking about it so so much that when i was watching a movie or just studying etc i would need to stop just to finish my thoughts and i basiclly now have a whole story in my head and its so perfect and i cant wait to break it into a completed story but i really im thinking about it 24/7 and i am so passionate about it omg

I feel like the comment section helps me just as much as the vid

If you are concerned about its commercial viability, give up now

Very good advice as usual. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Today I read the first several pages of my screenplay with the stopwatch counting. 👍 16 minutes : 10 second . 28

Hey guys, I’m a 15 year old from Philadelphia and I write my own screenplays movies and shows I finished a screenplay for my movie 110 Pages💪🏽.

I feel like some amazing scene in my head that I wanna write about things that lead to or Center around that very thing

Note to self: Make it meaningful.

Hope everyone here has their ideas out into the world one day! Love!!

The world changes around the same core stories which creates new concepts all the time.

I'm stuck on one story, so I'll go to a new idea for now.

Sort of? Why say "sort of" so much?

Fine video.Dislike for 100 ads...

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