HOW TO WRITE A PLAY | 10 Playwriting Activities
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- čas přidán 1. 08. 2024
- How do you write a play? Here are 10 playwriting activities to start you off on your writing journey.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
1:12 - Interrupted Ritual
2:29 - Flashback / Memory
3:41 - Character Questionnaire
4:46 - Job Interview / Firing
6:07 - Diary Entry / Therapy Session
7:34 - In Late Out Early
9:26 - Write Your Bad Ideas
10:57 - Voice In My Head
12:12 - Last Words
13:36 - Digital Dialogue - Zábava
I’ve been writing a musical for about 8 months now, and this video gives me a lot to think about when enhancing my script and making it more authentic
I've been working on my first one for 10 years now. I'm finally on the last part of the final scene of the last act🎉
Ten years dude? How come? In saying that I've been working on a script on and off for a few years and only by gathering opinion and realising it needs a lot more work. In fact I had emailed to me yesterday a script assessment that was free to a number of applicants and I was lucky to be chosen. It was very useful in pointing as to how the story and characters should develop and the superfluous stuff that needs ditching.
@harryturnbull1884 Life got in the way. Lots of life. I'm at a point now where I can focus on the work. I'm going to post a vid soon explaining, just to vent and decompress. But getting back to it has been reinvigorating👍
Thank you!!!!
Best video I’ve found on this subject! 👏🏻
Thank you so much for this, it really helped me see all the holes in my play!
I could sleep on a matress made of his voice
Oh my damn, I am a new writer and have started on a play but put it on pause to challenge myself to write a TV show and now I feel highly motivated by these tips. I got stuck tbh but this has me on "GO-MODE"
This is actually fantastic. Thanks.
This video is so helpful and well made! Thank you so much!
Oh my goodness. I am so thankful for you. This video offers great advice.
Thanks. Best type of informative video I've found so far..
just learned loads of stuff....thanks
Some how lovely
Have to write a 20 min play. This really
You've really helped
Nice
Examples i thought of
start at an event: Beetlejuice
Diary entrys: Heathers, dear evan hansen
This is very helpful, thank you!
his voice sounds relaxing lol
Martin Scorsese who is known for his director role often used this style of starting a sentence but ends it with Subtleties that express the summation of what is being expressed.
This was brilliantly executed in many of his later films like Goodfellas and Casino. In a bar scene where Joe Pesci (Tommy) is reflecting on a bank Job he did in Secaucus. He describing a situation to his comrades but is interrupted and the momentum of his story he's telling is interrupted and so is the captive audience at the table; In other words, this waiter's timing could not have been worse. As the waiter leans in to discreetly yet obviously discuss an outstanding tab He owes, Pesci agitated and offended manages to maintain control over the situation with a quick comedic response: "Bing! I thought I was getting Pinched over here; he goes on to say "this guy's hanging on my neck like a vulture; like impending danger but he doesn't say the entire word danger; he says like impending dane...Yet the audience knows what he's getting at.There are many such unfinished lines surrounding scenes especially scenes that include the woman playing his mother. She is a pro at sarcastic interjection.. Her character is so natural. He wanted to borrow her large cutting knife (for nefarious reasons) and she quips: 'Well, bring it back, You know eh... the audience gets that she's use to him not being too reliable.Or when in the same scene at the dinner table she reaches under the table an pulls out a painting she created.. She's use to not being taken too seriously as far as Tommy is concerned and says look at my beautiful painting. Deniro who plays Jimmy says " Wow one dog goes one way, the other dog is going the other way" as they laugh, she says "Yeah, one is going EAST, the other is going West, SO WHAT"? This is an inferred emotion of defense where facial gesture and body language cooperate with unfinished but inferred lines.This is such a noteworthy style of directing and a very relatable technique that this director took liberties to include; his input as director in my opinion makes this a great movie; one that I could watch at least once a year. Scorcese's knack for AD Lib, coupled with his knowledge of authentic dialogue of a particular group or region holds its place in the analls of cinematic superiority.
I see a lot of this race to cut the froth these days, by which I mean your reference to starting late. So, instead of a lot of small talk, the characters get down to business straight away with maybe an abrupt comment. When did this come about, this 'new' idea? I have watched and read a few classical stage plays, most recently A Long Day's Journey Into Night, and I must admit I almost switched off. It was lengthy, turgid drivel about nothing before action started. Therefore I am not disagreeing with you but given the 'new' philosophy why arent directors cutting out this waffle or why are these plays full of tedious exchanges still regarded as part of the great canon?
The music in the backgrounds is annoying, so even though what you're saying is great advice the music effects the subconscious to stress out and destroy the aspiring writer
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I do have to say that I never wrote a play before her bum trying to do a movie so plays is Salt Lake of a movie right? So if that is true then you’re video is a little bit helpful to me but a lot of it is not helpful Joshua know that. Order to make a play is to write one order to make it a place I have more than just one people acting that’s how you write a play
Twitter does not help nearby zoom call or you can just write the play and let Schawl do it for you but a college or a high school or something like that I should know. About that and let them eat a script for you I wanna do is hang over the place and say go ahead and script it anyway you want
Or fail to do otherwise to fire people does not help at all you can find ways to compromise with them defined all right rule for them and they’re just gonna have a bad attitude that is why don’t you give them a RAW that they would have an attitude with what does it give you attitude then shut on the door because that’s how you lose that actor or if you replaced him or somebody else does not help
And if that someone was act like a fool in front of you then you’ll give them apart as a fool acting like a damn fool from everybody else. Then you would give them apart where they can act like a fool order to make them feel better about themselves and that is how you get the better of the other person instead of always firing somebody just because they wanna act like a complete ass in front of you if they wanna episode of complete ass in front of you get them a rule that won’t make them feel like an ass in front of somebody else
And that’s how you successfully can have a play and make it interesting