What Does a Scriptwriter Do?

The screenwriter is the author of the script. The screenwriter expresses the overall design of the program or film and television in the form of text. The work is called a script, which is a blueprint for performance in film and television dramas and plays. The outstanding professional screenwriter is called a playwright. The most famous and representative is Shakespeare. Screenwriters have high requirements for artistic literacy, and generally have strong literary expression skills. They are familiar with the relevant processes and performance methods of film, television, drama, advertising, and feature film operations. ^[1-3]

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Screenwriter, mainly in the form of text

Process mastery

Professional screenwriters have a good understanding of Chinese, film and television literature, and various books; they are familiar with the related processes of film and television, drama, advertising, and feature films, as well as television and theater performance techniques. Non-professional screenwriters are not included here.

Video analysis

How should screenwriters perform film analysis?
Thematic Structure Characters Scenes Scenes Space Camera Light Shades Dialogue The theme is just like other works of art. The theme of the film is the soul and essence in the film works, and it is also the spiritual home we are obsessed with. Even after we watched a movie, we tried to summarize and analyze things.
Theme-is the core and connotation of the content in the film;
It is the theme of the movie.
The content and themes in the film works infiltrate and reflect the creator's worldview and values, and reflect the creator's understanding and emotions of life.
The theme of a movie is often diverse, multi-faceted, and multi-cut. We can understand it this way: the theme of a movie is the action of the movie and the connotation of the characters, and it is the extension of the plot and events of the movie. The theme is the hint of screenwriter and director's life experience and experience. When the theme of an artistic work is transformed into an image, it is the emotional release of the director's thoughts and desires.
The stories and themes of modern movies are often clear in one sentence and 10,000 sentences.
The theme of modern movies is deepened, which is an inner emotional experience of the audience.
The theme of the film is not the "experience", "social significance" and "ideological value" that we summarize and conclude after watching the movie. It is the goal pursuit and soul purification of film creators.
The theme of film art is often not simple, not superficial, but deepened and ambiguous. Requires our overall grasp.

The analysis of the structure of the film in the analysis of the second structure film is a very important work. In our film analysis, most students often ignore the analysis of the structure of the film, or even pay no attention to it. In fact, the structure of film is one of the most important art forms of film.
Structure-is the way the film is organized and the structure of the narrative combination.
The structure and frame of a film is the style of the film.
The director uses various methods and methods to rationally, organically and completely form an audio-visual whole according to the needs of the film's theme, content and character creation, to achieve artistic unity.
The structural analysis of the film is a systematic engineering in the analysis of the film. The structural analysis of the film we believe should include:
two. Analysis of play structure:
The analysis of the play is mainly a systematic analysis of the plot setting and the organization of the plot.
The study of the film's creative rules shows that the dramatic structure of the film is nothing more than countless events with causality and internal connections, which are organically and purposefully arranged together, and finally constitute a kind of ending.

The characters in the three-person film are the core of the film creation and the core of the work.
Conversely, the creation of characters is the most important thing for a film director to create.
Our understanding of literature is "literature is anthropology" and "style is human." Compared with other art forms, the creation of the film is also closely centered on shaping the typical characters in the typical environment.
You can think of it this way: the characters in the film are the core of the narrative, the core of the conflict, and the basis of the film's modeling.
For the basic requirements of the movie, we hope that in a series of scenes, events, actions, dialogues are not seen by ordinary people (specific actors), but by living, character.
The general situation in world movies is that if the audience is interested in the characters in the movie (actually the actors), interested in the story in the movie, and interested in the theme of the movie, they will pay full attention to the movie.
What we understand as "people" are natural people and social people.
The "characters" in the film are the "symbols" and "fictional" people in the narrative and the structure of the theater. In our subconscious, characters-actors, actors-roles, these two alternate identification.

Four scene scenes-is the basic carrier of film narration and the specific space environment of the film.
Scene-is an important modeling element of the film.
The scenes of modern movies can be real-world environments or non-real-world environments. However, the existence of these two scenarios requires that the situation stipulated in the script be reflected and reflected.
Generally, the ways and types of scenes in movies can be divided into the following six types:
1) Interior scene-In the studio, artificial scenes specially made for filming. This type of scene has limited space, and the shooting environment must be completely arranged. The light treatment can be more delicate, and the shooting is not limited by natural conditions.
2) Exterior: A scene of natural landscape in nature. The space of this scene is relatively wide, and it is often necessary to choose local shooting or process local shooting. Due to the limitation of natural light, the timing of light must be selected when processing light.
3) Real scenes-scenes of natural buildings where humans live and move. These scenes often do not exist for filming. The space of this scene is very real and has a breath of life. However, there are obvious architectural structural relationships, and shooting is also limited.
4) Exterior location of the venue 1 For the filming of the film, according to a certain proportion, the scene is artificially built in the selected natural environment. The space of this scene is reasonable and meets the requirements for filming. However, the requirements for overall art design are relatively high, and they are also limited by natural light.
5) Special effect scenesman-made, small-scale artificial scenes used for special effects shooting. This kind of scene is generally a model scene, which needs to be shot with the actual natural scene. The perspective and proportion of the art design are very important.
6) Computer simulation scene-the virtual reality scene environment created by computer (digital) technology.

The scene of Wujingbei film is a language for expressing the visual form of film footage and pictures. On the surface is a modeling element, but it is actually a means of teaching.
The most fundamental meaning of the scene is to express the scope of the picture. The classification of movie scenes generally has the following forms: l) large perspective, 2) long perspective, 3) large panorama, 4) panoramic, 5) medium perspective, 6) medium and close perspective, 7) close perspective, 8) close-up, 9) Big close-up.
Scenes in movies are the external form of film visual effects and director's language style. Decide on the style of the film, the style of the narrative, the style of the visuals, and the style of the director.

Six Spaces In theoretical analysis, the space of movies is a less specific concept.
At the same time, the space of the film is an overall concept of expression. It cannot leave the film's narrative and the theme of the film. The space of the film is an empty word in the description of film shooting and an adjective in the theoretical analysis of film shooting.
However, in the process of film creation, space is the embodiment of the film's specific scenes. Often in the process of knowing movies, the space of movies is a relatively broad, less specific, or even vague concept for us.

Seven-camera position "Camera position" is the name that the creator of the movie refers to the camera shooting position, and it is also the expression of the camera shooting point in the film analysis.
In fact, the camera is the most important form of language in the style of a film director.
The use of seats is a form of film narrative.
The change of camera position is the lens form of the movie.
The change rule of the camera position is the visual form of the film.
In a macro sense, the seats in the movie have the following meanings:
1) The camera position is the viewpoint. It is to determine from what angle we see the development of film narrative.
2) The camera position is the composition. The pictures taken by each camera will have different picture effects and composition effects due to different positions.
3) The machine position is scheduling. Each station reflects how the director completes the film's narrative in space and scheduling.
We know that the core of drama scene scheduling is the position of the characters on the stage. He reflects the relationship between the drama director's handling of each point and position of the character on the stage. Because the performance of the drama is not divided into scenes, it is the relationship between the environment and the characters seen from one point.
4) The camera embodies the director's narrative style. Some directors have a smaller range of lens changes in the conversion of the lens, and some directors have a larger range of lens changes in the conversion of the lens. Some directors have more regular changes in their positions, and some directors show greater randomness.

Nine rays Light is the soul in photography.
Film light is an important expression of film visual style.
The use of film light reflects the director and photographer's pursuit of the visual form of future film pictures.
The sense of light expresses the degree to which the photographer has mastered the director's photography skills.
The form of light determines the character style of the film.
The light treatment of the film pursues "natural and real effects" and some pursues "aesthetic and dramatic effects", but no matter what the effect is, it is to complete the shaping of the characters and the performance of the environment.
The light in the film is first a technical issue, and secondly an artistic issue.

Ten Shadows TuneIt is a visual feeling and overall effect of the relationship between the color of a movie picture and the relationship between black, white and gray. The concept of tone is a technical issue in film photography.
Some people will ask such questions during film analysis. What effect does the film tone effect have on our regular film analysis? Does it have artistic significance?
And we have such a personal experience in the creation of film art. The control and final effect of film photography is a technical problem in the part of film photography, and an artistic problem in the overall creation of film photography.
The tone of the film is a manifestation of the overall visual style of the film.
The tone of the film is the overall light and dark relationship of the film on the surface, and finally reflects the overall feeling of the film's visual image style and the overall feeling of the tone.
The overall control of the tone in the film, the control in a play, and the control in a shot are relatively complex systems engineering in photography creation, with the choice of film type; the control of photofinishing technology; the photography Use light mode and method for processing; there are purposeful choices for photographic style; there are effective controls for high-brightness and low-density parts of film; there are designs and styles for lens picture effect control, etc.
The specific implementation of the filming process of the tone movie is actually the photographer's allocation of various brightness relationships in the scene. The handling of various tones in the film is entirely determined by the director and photographer according to the content of the film and the style of the film.

Eleven Dialogues and Dialogues-is an important element in the film to promote the development of narrative.
Dialogue is an important means for characters to express their thoughts and emotions.
Three elements of movie sound: dialogue, music, sound. Among them, the dialogue also includes voice-overs in the film, (narration) narration, and inner monologue.
There is no speed requirement for the dialogue of the characters in the film, it depends on the content of the narration and the character of the characters. The broadcast speed of TV news is 3 words / second. In conventional movies, dialogue speed is too fast and too slow. In this regard, the director should pay great attention to effective control.
The dialogue of the characters in the film is still the main way to promote narration, express the characters, shape the characters, and express the personality in the conventional movies. The tone, intonation, speed, expression, and articulation of the characters' dialogues can all reflect and express the characteristics of the characters in the film.
In our film analysis, the analysis of the existence form, the number of appearances, and the control method of the dialogue scene are all our macroscopic grasp of the dialogue process of the film.

TV screenwriter, that is, the person who wrote the script for a TV series. Individual screenwriters who work on TV stations arrange for variety shows and reports. TV station screenwriter training often lasts three months, and it takes an average of three to four years to train a senior screenwriter. If the perception is low, it may take longer.

The screenwriter is the heart and soul of the entire movie or TV series. Not only the story depends on him, the script depends on him, the actor dialogue depends on him. The "book" of the script means not only the book, but also the basic and basic meaning.

The status of screenwriters varies from country to country. In Japan, regardless of television, anime, or movie, it is often the screenwriter who manages the entire story, but the director is the second. In the United States, the annual salary of screenwriters is not low. When the average salary of an average person is 50,000 US dollars, the annual salary of American screenwriters is 200,000 US dollars. In Hong Kong, the average monthly salary of a screenwriter's newcomer is 20,000 Hong Kong dollars, which may gradually increase to 30,000 to 40,000. If there are good works, there will be more. On the mainland, the newcomers are about three thousand yuan a month (some depending on the number of episodes).

Screenwriter ^[1]

Screenwriter is an indispensable and powerful pillar in the film and television industry. In this industry, the blood is changed frequently. Some writers will be transferred or concurrently as screenwriters, and some screenwriters will be transferred to directors or other positions. Famous director

Is there a screenwriter formula? Is it possible to write attractive stories of movies and TV series regularly? A complete screenwriter formula does not exist, but a closer analysis of those popular stories will reveal that there are rules to follow.

American master of screenwriter research Cristopher Vogler (The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers) (Chinese translation "

For showbiz, screenwriters ^[2]

The youngest practising screenwriter: Khaniya Rawat is a 10-year-old girl from Jaipur, India. She wrote, planned, and performed an adventure called Mysterious Fantasy "The Lost Key" drama has become the youngest practicing screenwriter in the world. (Guinness)