Online Screenplays (Major Script Banks)

One of the best ways to improve your own screenwriting is to study produced scripts and figure out what made them sell in the first place, what made them work or NOT work as a story, how did the writer handle exposition, dialogue, action sequences and so on. A couple of caveats: What you will find will be scripts in varying stages of drafts from first draft to shooting script. If you are writing a spec script, you will not be exactly following the shooting script format. A shooting script might contain CAMERA LANGUAGE or other things that you wouldn't normally see in a spec script (which cuts "directing-on-paper" down to an absolute minimum). The second caveat will be: "But if that pro can break the rules, why can't I??????" That's the lament of a lot of new unproduced writers. And this next part will drive you even crazier: There are no rules carved into stone in Hollywood. Whatever works, works. But what USUALLY WORKS BEST for NEW writers is to offer a professionally crafted product to represent what you know how to do. Use the common language of screenwriting that's deemed "standard format" by most of the folks who will be deciding your fate. DO assist them in understanding your story by so doing. DO reassure them that you know how to play the game. Get past the gatekeepers FIRST. Then you, too, can be one of those "But Ma, THEY aren't following the rules!!!" pros. The Online Major Script Banks