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Hi. Im danish, but im gonna write to you guys in english cus i didnt know if you all would understand me on danish :P

 

Well, I got a movie in my head. I know the plot. I dont know what the lines and some stuff in the middle are gonna be, but i got a all around idea of the movie. My problem is i have no idea how to set up a movie script? So you can send it in to exsample "Nordisk Film" Or other people on this area. So if anyone know how to set up a script to movies, i would like to see it, exsample, some scripts from movies alreddy made. Ive tryed google but didnt finde any. The movies tags are around Drama/War, so if u could finde some movie scripts with those tags, it would be great. I can use other movies, but i would preffere those.

 Btw. What are the different between Screenplay, and script?

 Mvh

Christian

forexample...

 

"The school"

Timmy walks in the class room

Tom

Heey Timmy!

 

 Or how do you write it? And should i take how the places look in it? And i need to make.. just gonna write it on danish..:P "Og jeg skal lave en beskrivelse over de personer der med?" f,eks.

Timmy

Male

Age: 15

 

And stuff like that? Just tell me everything i need to put in a script for screenplay.

 

Mvh

Christian

Det ligger mange film manus på denne siden: http://www.imsdb.com/ kanskje det hjelper^^

Thanks!!! :)

 

Btw. what writing is that they are writeing with? ehmm... "Skrift Type?" I heard some place that you have to use that.

 

Mvh

Christian, thanks agian

 There are somethings here i do not understand. Like here: What does Fade In Mean?

               "FADE IN:

               CREDITS:  White lettering over a back background.  The
               THUNDEROUS SOUNDS OF A MASSIVE NAVAL BARRAGE are heard.  The
               power is astonishing.  It roars through the body, blows back
               the hair and rattles the ears."

 And

               "FADE IN:

               EXT. OMAHA BEACH - NORMANDY - DAWN

               The ROAR OF NAVAL GUNS continues but now WE SEE THEM FIRING.
               Huge fifteen inch guns."

            What does EXT. Mean ive seen it many times.

and 
          EXT. NORMANDY - CRATER FIELD - DAY
That " - DAY" What does that mean?
INT. STEEL MILL - DAY
INT. i see that alot, like EXT. what does this mean?
 
Mvh
Christian 
 
 
 
 

skrifttypen heter Courier New
Fade in betyr at bildene glir over i hverandre. Eller at skjermen først er svart mens så ser vi bilde mer og mer... om du skjønner hva jeg mener :P
Resten vet jeg ikke helt hva betyr^^'

Fade in betyr at man starter fra svart skjerm og langsomt (vanligvis mellom 0.5 og 1 sekund) viser bildet på skjermen. Andre uttrykk som sier det samme: Fade to black (motsatt av fade in men samme som fade out), Fade to white (samme som fade to black men man ender med en helt hvit skjerm)

Du spør også om hva - DAY betyr. Hele den linja beskriver settingen: Lokasjon og lys. Ext - Normandy - Crater Field - Day betyr at man er ute i Normandie, i et kraterfelt (nedslagsfelt for kanoner og granater) og det er dag. I avsnittet over så ser du at det er DAWN. Det betyr at det er tidlig på dagen, daggry.

Man bruker også denne beskrivelsen innendørs: INT - HOGWARTS - GRIFFINDOR MAIN ROOM - DIM. Dette betyr man er inne og at det er lite belysning.

INT betyr interior (inne), EXT betyr exterior (ute).

Håper det hjelper litt.

 

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“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit,” Hemingway confided to F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. “I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.”

Helped me alot! :) sorry for the late replu btw.

Btw. i do uderstand norsk? Or svensk. So this isnt because i didnt understand the words :) But. The fade in thing. If i want to write like: Someone tells something, and there is a view over a mounten or something. Then after hes done speaking, the title comes up. Do i have to write fade in with the title or what? when is it, you use fade in?

 Also, i founded this good program Celtx, its free. And i think its easy to get statet with. 

 

Oh also. Do you know a site were i can get help, with scripts, not that this site isnt good. But i get the felling this is more of a site for books ;)I mean the people here, know more about writing books than movies. So it would be nice, if i like could get a site were i could post some of my script and they would know 100% what is wrong with it, if there is anything wrong..

Mvh

Christian

Alright.. i got another one. If i want my movie to start with the camera filming from to sky, down at a countryside, and then ind the end films a city or something. what do i write that? in the head or what its called.. "EXT. COUNTRYSIDE - MORNING" also, do i use FADE IN: here? And agian. what does it mean if i put FADE IN: In that?

 

After EXT countryside... then i type: "something like, The camera moves over the countryside, and end up at the city, while Harry speaks" Or how do i write that?
 

Hei igjen Christian,

Jeg tror du blander inn litt for mye filmteknisk her. Du må jo få la regissøren få lov til å gjøre sin jobb også

Jobben din som playwriter/screenwriter er å lage historien. Du beskriver setting med lokasjon, tid på døgnet, tid på året etc, men å bestemme slike ting som title, filmmusikk etc er ikke din jobb. Dersom du har sterke føringer på slike ting så kan du enten gjøre ferdig historien din som et script og lage en storyboard i tillegg (dette gjør at du i prinsippet har gjort mesteparten av regissørens forberedende jobb), eller du kan lage ditt script og bare legge inn kommentarer til regissøren kun der hvor du føler sterkt for visse tekniske virkemidler slik som f.eks. en slik fly-over som du beskriver sist her.

Men mitt tips til deg er: rendyrk scriptet ditt og sørg for at du har en sterkere og bedre historie enn alle de andre der ute, og når scriptet ditt blir antatt og skal filmes så har du en dialog med producer og regissør om dine ønsker. For mye filmteknisk i scriptet ditt vil være en turn-off for de som skal kjøpe det.

Her er en webside som selger movie writing software, men som også har jevnlige nyhetsbrev med tips etc og også en del linker til andre screenwriting ressurser: http://www.screenplay.com/

Morten

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“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit,” Hemingway confided to F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. “I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.”

dobbelpost :)
                                      

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Though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.

EXT. Countryside - Morning

 The camera moves over the countryside, and end up at the city.

HARRY (V.O)
bla,bla,bla

 

(V.O means voice over. Which is used when the person that speaks isnt visible on the screen)

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Though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.