How would you describe screenwriting? As an art? A craft? A technical blueprint? Something else entirely?
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in the opposite order perhaps. it starts with an idea. you get a beginning and an ending for it. then you fill in the rest, with all it's up's and down's and plot twists. that's your blueprint. Then starts the crafting and once you've done this a million times your craftsmanship will be come will become art and you the artist.
A passion which can also be commercially viable
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giving birth!
I think its discipline.. like discipline in army or in schools... I mean, you can walk anywhere, but your walk becomes "march" with discipline... So you can write anything, you maybe the most talented and artistic person; but if you want a film, follow the discipline!!
A screenplay is a work of art that's compomised for money and often bastardized by less deserving talent...
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Agree with Ivan. The screenplay is a blueprint for the movie in the writer's mind. Generally, it's necessary - at least as regards our system of filmmaking. But dig something like 'Laws of Gravity'. That said, such a feat can only be accomplished with a community of like-minded, creative-thinking actors are all on the same page as director, shooter, etc. But, you know, we should all start thinking outside the box. Art shouldn't have a system.
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@Bix Insofar as having a labor of love turned into what would make an after school special seem like high art... Not to say that every script ever written is art either. Or that every screenwriter is an artist.. I've written my share of crap. But some people should restrict their art to doodling at their weekly conference call meeting. I'm sure there are plenty of hacks in our sand boxes who purport to be visionaries and those are the ones I want to avoid... which is part of the reason, I write, shoot, direct and edit my own crap. So hearsay and experience... Probably why I spend little time in the sandbox now...
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A writer writes the story (detailed outline or short story or novel), then rewrites it as a blueprint for a director (in present tense if possible) to apply camera views to symbols, actions, dialog and character traits to expand emotions in metaphors, analogies, similes and/or allegory. Without visual and/or spoken literary devices to extrapolate the diamonds and/or coal of human emotions, a screenplay is just a meaningless series of camera directions and blabbering actors.
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all of the above pluss a bit more