As Jasmine showed us how to start with a screenwriting, I applied it to myself and figured out the way that will work for me. Some people start with a character, but no particular story. For me, I start with a story, or the beginnings of it – or maybe even just a world first then work on finding characters who represent the key values of that world and try to put my character under stress and a journey for them that brings out their inner qualities in my scene.
However, once I start writing it, it’s all too easy to fall in love with it and I really find it hard to cut them, even when they have nothing do with the theme. Moreover, i seems always have trouble with an ending, maybe because i weren’t clear what the story was about at the outset, even I thought the ending will be obvious.
As this week lecture, Jasmine gave us an advice to do not write the inner thoughts or psychology of your characters (although you may have done this as part of your background research earlier). Do not interpret. Write only what they do, moment by moment. This ensures our story is driven by the actions, not the words of the characters, and thus is truly cinematic.