How do you write a found-footage movie? I was wondering because the film's format seems to be a lot different than your normal strait-narrative movie.
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How Do you write a found-footage movie?
- Thread starter RaymondLeggs
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I'd say it's no different, just show little to no concern for specific camera movements.
For example: instead of writing a sentence like "Slow Dolly Shot moving from the left to the right along with them as they walk down the street."
Write it more like "They walk down the street, the cameraman is behind them."
For example: instead of writing a sentence like "Slow Dolly Shot moving from the left to the right along with them as they walk down the street."
Write it more like "They walk down the street, the cameraman is behind them."
You basically have two stories playing out--(1) what happens in the "found footage" and (2) what happens with the people who find it. I want to emphasize again, use note cards so you can keep track of the events as they play out. Play out (2) linearly. Use it as the background for orienting the audience. Story (1) can be linear or non-linear AFTER you've written out the story in a linear form. [Basically you reorganize the cards and draw parallels or contrasts to events in the "reality" (2).] Writing solid narratives for (1) and (2) is important.
Yet another thread by OP on yet another topic.
A tad tough to answer don't you think?
Maybe instead of asking on this forum, you actually think carefully about your question first... I'm getting deja vu here.
The answer will then come to you...
ANSWER: Read some good produced found footage scripts.
Then you could ask a better question: Where can I find some good found footage scripts. We can obviously answer that much easier than: 'How do you write a found-footage movie?'
ANSWER: Here...
http://writetoreel.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?8-Read-Scripts
I won't point them out to you - you can put some work in and work that out for yourself.
A tad tough to answer don't you think?
Maybe instead of asking on this forum, you actually think carefully about your question first... I'm getting deja vu here.
The answer will then come to you...
ANSWER: Read some good produced found footage scripts.
Then you could ask a better question: Where can I find some good found footage scripts. We can obviously answer that much easier than: 'How do you write a found-footage movie?'
ANSWER: Here...
http://writetoreel.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?8-Read-Scripts
I won't point them out to you - you can put some work in and work that out for yourself.
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