Writing a synopsis for a film is DEFINITELY an art unto itself...
From everything I've learned about writing synopses, whatever you do write basically comes down to being able to answer YES to the following questions...
- Will someone (hopefully a sales agent or better yet, a producer) be able to read what you've written -- and IMMEDIATELY understand the concept of the story and based on what you've written, be able to PITCH it to a prospective buyer?
- Is the synopsis a truthful portrayal of your story?
Rather than sit here and try to explain the mechanics of writing a synopsis, why not click on over to:
PLOT-O-MATIC
Now of course this online script is limited -- I'm not suggesting you go here to create your synopsis... I am suggesting however, that you create several of them just to see how they read and to get the feel of it how the script works.
Reason being, is that PLOT-O-MATIC actually creates some pretty decent synopses... You probably won't be able to match your story perfectly but you can easily come up with several decent ones and then tweak a new one from all the ones you've made.
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