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Adam William Ward, Filmmaker/Actor: If you don’t think something’s strong enough it needs to go. If you think something needs to be better, it needs to be better.
Film Courage: What have the bad screenplays taught you?
Adam: Get to the point. You read these screenplays and if I don’t know what your story is about…I need something that latches onto something to intrigue me, whether that’s a character, whether that’s a storyline, something that makes me want to keep reading.
That’s why usually your inciting incident is in the first 10 minutes of something and it used to be 10 minutes and now people have moved it up a lot like something crazy can happen in the first five minutes.
Narc [movie] made a huge impact when it came out a long time ago because they had that handheld chase scene right in the beginning of the movie. It literally happened within the first three minutes of the movie and it was an independent film that blew up. I don’t know if you know what that movie was? Because on the page it’s not as exciting as in a script but still if you can write something that captures your audience, that makes them want to keep going, I think that’s the number one thing. What they taught me was you need an inciting incident soon, you need to capture people’s attention soon.
I think reading stuff you realize right away when you read a lot you ask:
-What is the point of the scene?
-What is the reason for the scene?
There has to be one whether it’s even regular dialogue to get to know somebody. There’s still a reason that we want to feel like you really know this person or there has to be a reason behind it or why is it on the page?
Sometimes the bad ones…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
MORE VIDEOS WITH ADAM WILLIAM WARD
WATCH ‘BAD ADVICE’
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WATCH ‘WALLY GOT WASTED’
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About:
Adam is a Jewish-American born in Abington, Pennsylvania who grew up in Bucks County, PA. At age twelve his family relocated to Roseburg, Oregon; a new and unfamiliar small town. As the middle child of three, Adam realized he had to stand out to gain any measure of attention, if he wanted his rightful place at the dinner table. His antics started purely as a way to amuse his family, but quickly blossomed into a desire to entertain a bigger audience. This desire, however, was abated by a nearly crippling case of stage fright that lasted until he joined his high school’s drama program as a teenager. Through his teacher and classmates’ encouragement, Adam gradually let go and confronted his fear. It seemed to work. After receiving much local acclaim in his first year on stage, his high school named the A-Ward Award after him and it is still given annually to the most outstanding newcomer. It was because of this success Ward pursued his love of film as an undergrad at Hawaii Pacific University where he graduated with a Communications Degree. After graduating from college, Ward made his way to Hollywood! During his first day in town, he used his charm to land a position in post production at Dreamworks. From there, he segued to a gig working for Todd Phillips at Warner Brothers. But pursuing a career made him temporarily lose sight of his dream (dream of what?) It wasn’t until Ward bumped into Jimmy Smits at LAX that he was convinced to go back and study acting again. At Smits’ recommendation, he began studying at the Joanne Baron DW School of Acting during which he found time to star in eleven short films. The following year ward was a lead in three independent features. But it wasn’t until the year 2011 Ward, took his destiny in his own hands and wrote, directed and starred in a tv comedy called, “Three Guys and a Couch” (On Amazon Prime). In 2013 wrote Directed and Starred in “Parole Officers” another tv pilot. (On Amazon Prime). Later in 2014 Ward co-wrote a feature film called, “Wally Got Wasted”. [See more of Adam’s bio on IMDB]
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