Screenwriting Essentials: Instinct
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- čas přidán 9. 11. 2021
- Nobody likes to talk about it, but a basic, core element of writing for screens -- or of ANY creative work -- is FOLLOWING YOUR INSTINCTS.
That’s not as easy as it sounds.
So in this video I try to lay out some basic tools and methods so you can get more comfortable with and competent at making instinctive choices.
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Even when explaining an abstract concept, you still manage to break it down in a practical and systematic way with insight and support that isn't patronising or dogmatic. No fluff and no rambling, just wisdom and encouragement without being sugar coated. This channel is a celestial unicorn flying through the mist that is CZcams.
Haha - okay, if I ever put out a book based on these videos, THIS is going to be the cover blurb! Thank you.
Rightly said.
I'm not even a screenwriter, but this opened my mind in so many ways! Thanks for the content you put out it's really helpful and underrated! Hope your channel keeps growing. Cheers from Brazil :)
Thank you so much!!
M.C. Escher once said, “We adore chaos because we love to produce order.”
Thank you so much for pointing out all the nuances of creative-workflow and giving us innumerable reasons to be creative. You have done a man’s job, Sir.
Thank you!
Though I do want to point out that women and everyone on the man-woman-person-spectrum do the job as well :)
"...and that will be alright." - comforting, yet so hard to accept.
Small steps, let it make sense over time. And everyone has their own way of doing it, and their own set of needs and realities. So figure out your version of it all.
It's shocking to me how much of what you said in this video are concepts that I've gone over with my psychologist. In the end, the most important part of learning or doing anything is to believe that it can go right, and also, that it can go wrong just as much, and work to get the best out of it. No work is ever wasted, even if you write a completely terrible story, you will learn from it. This is advice that I feel a lot of people need to hear. Good stuff 👍
So glad to hear you find it helpful! It's the product of decades of self-help efforts as I tried to figure out my own process, so it's no surprise there's a hefty dollop of psychology in there :)
Thank you so much for all your videos. They are REALLY GOOD lessons for people who struggle with anxiety and fear of failure. It's great to know that I am not alone.
Not only not alone - we WAY outnumber any crazy people who DON'T struggle with those things :) "Normal" is a bad joke created out of fear, in fact of "the fear of fear." Or the fear of "being different." And yet fear and "being different" are..."normal"!
@@writingforscreens Totally agree - thanks Glenn Gers
"The process is always fun"- thank you millions, and wish me fun📖📜📒
This video couldn't come into my feed at a more apt time than this. Had a crazy idea that has kept me awake for nights, and more I try to do other things, the more it comes back. This video gives me the courage to write it down. 🙏
Hooray! Definitely write it down!!
Going against instincts to avoid failure while creating something we don't really like... then finding out that others don't like it either... it's missing twice the hit. Courage has to be learnable. Thank you!
Courage is learnable: I love that!
Man, you are an incredible teacher. Thank you.
Thank you so much! What a wonderful holiday-seaspm gift this comment was for me.
It is so wonderful to have the ability to watch this and all of your other videos as many times as needed. Truly appreciative and wish there was a way to thumbs-up as often as we watch them. Many thanks Glenn!
It's so wonderful to hear that you think of them that way - it's exactly how I hoped they would be used! Thank YOU!
Love your out-takes! I remember as a kid the first time I ever saw out-takes was at the end of the Canon Ball Run movie. It was the greatest thing ever! Wish more people showed their process haha. You are the best!
Thank you! I first saw it in the end-credits of Jackie Chan movies :)
There 's "Gold" - wisdom and sensible adviice to be found in every thought and sentence... thank you, Glenn
:)
I need to listen to this everyday before work.
It'll be here! :)
I highly recommend this great video! Great ideas/advice applicable to all kinds of creative work. Especially, "figure out what you do well, and what you like, and do it as well as you can." That doubles as sound life advice, too. Love the suggestions about learning to listen to yourself (it does take practice) and the "I will judge it later" response to any negative thoughts while working on a project. Thanks, Glenn!
Thank you so much!!!
Okay so I’m finally going to watch all these playlists, starting here. See you on the other side.
Thank you so much! Take your time, and only keep what's useful to you and your work.
Just wanted to say that I've been really loving your videos! I'm totally new to writing long form fiction and it's a wild ride, so it's good to feel like I have an experienced ally with some real talk to share!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate you reaching out. Makes it worth doing :)
It's so easy to second guess and doubt in collaborative projects - even when you're the creator/writer! Thanks for the kick up the pants Glenn:) I do trust my instincts - until another human judges it!
Just remember the crazy variety of judgments you hear on every single work of art that you see, from TOP GUN to CITIZEN KANE...it''s all just part of the process (or game...)
@@writingforscreens thanks Glenn:) Soooo true!
I really needed to hear this exact message today. My editor voice would not shut up while I was trying to write a first draft. This video helped remind me -- I'll judge (edit) this later. Right now, I am in creation mode. Thanks for this pep talk!! :)
Any time! (Literally: these videos are always here for you, thats why I did them :)
I write, and I shared this video with a friend who studied film. We could both use your words of wisdom.
So glad it's useful, thank you for telling me!
Your channel is all I was waiting for! Each video is extremely helpful. Thank you! Greetings from Italy ❤
Greetings to Italy!! Thank you so much!
I absolutely love your videos, thank you so much (from Australia)
Thank YOU, that's such a wonderful thing to hear!
This is brilliant. Is that it? Is there no more?
You've given us lots to chew on. I just like to think that you are making more videos. They are stellar!
That's it for this one - but I will be making more, they should start appearing here in the next month or so. Thank you!
@@writingforscreens Can't wait!
That was a pretty powerful message! Great!
So glad it meant something for you, thank you!!
Loved this.
Great advice. So many thanks Glenn 🌹🌹🌹
You're very welcome!
Love your channel man thank you so much!
Thank YOU for watching and commenting!!
I'm extremely grateful for this piece of advice.
Thank you so much for telling me that - makes it worthwhile doing it!
It's so cool information 🔥🔥🔥 I like it🤗 Many thanks for such interesting lesson 🙏 You a great teacher🤝 You are my teacher 🤗🙏
Thank you, thrilled these videos are helpful!
Concentrate on the moment. Feel, don't think. Use your instincts. Good advice Mr. G.! ♥ Thanks!
And be mindful of the future, but not at the expense of the moment.
Wow. The Universe open up and showed me Glenn's channel and suddenly I was no longer alone.
And so Glenn felt he had accomplished something worthwhile!
Genuinely an exceptionally helpful video. Thank you.
Thank YOU for telling me it helps!
Just commenting to say I really appreciate all your content! It really helps me think differently about writing and art in general, and your videos inspire me
Thank you so much for watching, and for reaching out to tell me this!
thanks for the wonderful insights.
Thank you, for watching and commenting!
I love this! It is helpful, thank you!
You're so welcome!
It is a huge challenge to balance listening to your inner voice and others' experiences, but for sure whoever has the patience to master this skill will be one of the best in his field. Thank you for this video
Thanks!
Thank you Glenn!
Great video, you take an approach of an artist, not creating something to please orders but to learn to deal with our creativity. Writers can learn a lot from other art forms, like music and painting, where a big focus is on the process itself. Thanks for the motivation!
Thank you so much for the support!
Enjoyed this session!
So glad, thanks for letting me know!!
this is great!
Thanks!!
Thank you so much for this advice
It is just what I needed. I just found your videos today and all the content in them was just what i needed to hear
Best wishes
Lynda
Ps they are so interesting and you are doing a great job
Thank you so much for telling me this! Keep exploring and experimenting and working - small steps!
Mondrian, Picasso and Michael Bay - WOW! I think I am in the right place... The idea that genius justifies being an impulsive, destructive asshole seems to have been embraced by Picasso. Can I tell Paramount Pictures my instincts and irrationality are essential to- and powerhouse elements of- my script? "I will judge this later" "Get Good Enough To Make Your Instincts Work" and "Be Willing to Fail" - words to live and write by. Love this vlog, thanks Glenn Gers!
Yes, Picasso (and Michael Bay and so many others) alas were not people you wanted to be anywhere near...but the art is the art, i think. Maybe if there's a question of financially-supporting a living artist or not, that's a legiut reason to decline to engage with their stuff, but otherwise I feel the art is the art. With much awareness and announcement: you do not WANT or NEED to be like this person to make great (or even in Bay's case, less than great) art.
Just discovered this channel. Subbed!
Thank you! And welcome!
This helped me a lot, because i was very criticall with my work when i started to make the script im worj¡king on... but ive learnes to do things because i said so and judge later, cause if i do it in the process it wont work and im not gonna move forward, thank you Glenn
I'm so glad to head this, Grecia! Definitely give yourself some room to learn and be creative.
I wasn't prepared for such a reflective life lesson from this video - "Take Responsibility!" damnnn you inner voice! Pretty standard stuff but the video seems to sum up "Life 101" quite well 🧐 something something wow why did I write such a lame comment?! - Because I was "Prepared to Fail!" 😩😤🥶
It's not a lame comment at all! I very much appreciate it!!
Thank you sir
Glad it's helpful!
This makes sense. Art is chaos. If it's rational it would be so boring.
Yet of course it is also bringing order to the chaos of life. So it's complicated, a balance of reason and feeling.
Hi Glenn, I have a kids youtube channel and one of the things I've been focusing on is increasing engagement through storytelling and scriptwriting. Do you have advice on which of your videos would be the best place for me to start that would make sense for what I'm doing? Thanks, Susanne
I'm not sure what you mean: are you recommending the kids watch my videos? (If so, thank you!) Or are you watching them yourself to get ideas for things to teach? Either way, I'd say "Think In Scenes," "A Process Of Questions" and "The 6 Essential Questions" are a good start. Best of luck!
@Writing For Screens it's for me to watch. :) I'm trying to learn how to make my youtube videos more engaging for kids (on my other channel for children). My analytics show that the kids are only watching around 1 minute 30 seconds to 2 minutes and I'm trying to improve this with more engaging storytelling and scriptwriting. Also, I do help other creators with kids channels on CZcams with growing their channel, so I think your videos could definitely help them as well. I'll check out the resources you suggested. Thank you! Susanne
@@cominghomewithsusanne Ah! Got it. One path you might try is exploring different styles in different videos and then watching the audience responses to see which ones hold their attention. (But of course lots of different things can affect that, so let it run over time...) And the other thing I'd advise is: do what you think you would like best, if you were your audience.
so.... is it relatively harder for someone who is always very rational and calm (at least when he/she is awake during the day time) to be a better writer? my friends and families generally think that the things I wrote when I was a teenager are more interesting than things I wrote now and I think that I indeed became a person much more rational and calm or pragmatic when grew up. Recently I started to pay more attentions to emotions, try to be softer and more emotional, intuitive and understanding after reading/watching some teaching materials about writing. And I start to realize after reading Joseph Campbell's The Hero of A Thousand Faces that I might have accidentally build a long-time good habit for writing which is I've always valued my dreams very much and using them as starting points or key elements for future stories. Well if I can't be creative and irrational enough when I'm awake, then at least I can when I'm dreaming LOL
Well - just remember a person can be rational and still have instincts and feelings! Calm, rational accessing of your instincts is fine! Knowing when to turn to your instincts is a rational step in a process. Maybe making room for that will let you get back to the emotional resources without giving up the value of being rational. They're not antagonists, they're both tools a person can use when they want.
Worst is when you outshine the master. Protect your work and look out for traps deployed to distract you from being the better version of yourself.
I think masters, if they are truly masters, are okay with being outshined. But as for the next sentence: yes, completely.
I'm working on a screenplay for a producer right now and I have two weeks to turn in a draft. I could really use some professional coaching. Is there an email address where I can reach out to you?
I'm at writingforscreens@gmail.com.
Fantastic, inspirational videos Sir. The addition of a clip-microphone or similar podcast mic would make them even more awesome and boost your voice.
Thank you!! (I will look into the audio production issues.)
Happy low-flying aircraft day everybody !!!
I couldn't find a section for it in the greeting card store...
"Why?"
"Because"
"That works!"
Sorry wrong channel, been watching too many pitch meeting and I cant help it.
Those pitch meeting videos are SO good!
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