Description

This episode is all about Saturday's class where we diagram the movie Manhunter, by Michael Mann. This is the precursor to the Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal Lektor is just as scary in this even though he is a minor character.

Using scripts of The Village, by M. Night Shyamalan and Heat, also by Michael Mann,
we looked at how to do the formatting. Writing the content of a movie
is a whole other matter which we didn't get into. The first step in the
door is the actual format of the script. People are very particular
that it look a certain way, all the letters are crossed and dotted,
headings are just so. Also I pass along some tips for things to avoid
when writing for visualization.

Here is a list of items for formatting the page:

• Location
• Action Block
• Character Name
• Parenthetical
• Dialog
• Transitions

Lots of software you can use, Final Draft we're using in class, Movie Magic Screenwriter is another app available. Demos are available. There's a free, opensource screenwriting software called Celtx that I have downloaded, but haven't really looked at.

Books are available, but looking at scripts, which you can download from IMSDB, SciFi Movie Page, Simply Scripts and the Weekly Script. A couple online magazines are Script and Creative Screenwriting.