Jane Mitchell
Film Connection Student Long Island, New York
What's a movie without a good story, right? It's like building a house. You can't just put up a piece of plywood up and hammer nails into it, make a few rooms together, and then call it a house. You need to have a blueprint that puts into paper the makings of a good home. Well, I think of screenwriting as the blueprint to an amazing movie. And of course, you've got to have talent to come up with a good story, but you'll need a lot of training to know just what story makes a good movie. Just like a blueprint is not a bunch of lines on a piece of paper, screenwriting is not string a bunch of words together.
Screenwriting, I've come to learn now, has both a creative and business side; and both sides are just fascinating me right now. Of course, the creative side is having a story that deserves to be told, the developing of plot points, making it tight and effective, so that possible viewers won't think that you're just taking them around in circles. But there's a business side to it too. Who do we approach so we can get out screenplay into a movie. How do we market it to make the right people get interested? And if we're already working on a movie, how are we able to trim our screenplay in case budget constraint calls for it, without sacrificing the integrity of the story?
These, and so many more, are things that I am learning under my mentor, an actual screenwriter who's got experience in both television and film. Under this tutelage, I've got the film connection I need to learn just how a story is made into a movie.
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