Film Courage: We’ve been talking a lot about the unnecessary and how it kills scripts and you said how 98% (possibly even 99.5%) of scripts are totally unreadable?
Jeff Kitchen, Dramatist / Author / Founder / Consultant: It has to do with both storytelling and scriptwriting craft because a great story that is not stageworthy doesn’t work. In theater they have this term, they say It’s a great story but it’s not stageworthy. Yes, it sounds great around a campfire but we can’t perform it on stage in a way that will grip an audience. You can have the best story in the world but if it doesn’t work dramatically…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BUY THE BOOK – WRITING A GREAT MOVIE:
Key Tools For Successful Screenwriting
FREE CLASS ON REVERSE CAUSE AND EFFECT WITH JEFF KITCHEN
CONNECT WITH JEFF KITCHEN
Advertisement – contains affiliate links
(As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases)
More affiliates:
Camera we use for interviews – https://buff.ly/3rWqrra
Editing system – https://goo.gl/56LnpM
Sound we use for interviews – https://amzn.to/2tbFlM9
Writers, try Final Draft free for 30-days – https://ow.ly/Gz4w30rDSKt
