AboutBarry Pearson Expertise I`m a credited writer on nine feature films. My latest movie, IRON ROAD, which stars Peter O'Toole and Sam Neill,is being offered to festivals. Sun Li, the Chinese star, won the best actress award at the Roma Fiction Fest recently. www.ironroadthemovie.com)
I`m also the writer of over 40 hours of television drama for major networks in North America, and I`m a producer of three feature films and over 50 hours of television prime time drama.
I've received Best Screenplay, Best Picture awards at international film festivals around the world.
I've been coaching screen and television writers in person, and on the internet, for over ten years, and I've answered over 1000 All Experts questions!
Experience I've been in the business of writing and producing feature
films, television series, and MOW's for over 20 years. You
can check me out at this URL
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Question Hi,
I'm a student who has written a couple of plays that people responded really well to and am really interested in trying my hand at writing my own movie. I understand that due to the different nature of film and theatre, there are differences in writing format. I was wondering what those were and if you had any tips on going from one to the other.
Sincerely,
Jose
Plays for the stage are as different from screenplays as chalk from cheese.
It's not a matter of format. That's just the wrapping on the parcel. It's what's inside the format that counts. Only you can judge whether or not your material is suitable for expansion into a screenplay.
If you go to my website www.createyourscreenplay.com you can order my book IT'S ALL ABOUT THE STORY, about 100 pages long, that describes what the archetypal structure of a screenplay is all about. You can read two chapters on line.
If you order the book, you'll be able to compare your stage story to the type of story needed for the screen, and judge whether or not to invest a substantial amount of work in writing 100 pages of screenplay.
I hope you discover that it's the next SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION, or GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS.
Best of luck,
Barry
My Website Create Your Screenplay
www.createyourscreenplay.com
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