How To Write A Great Scene - Jason Satterlund

It's where it's important to really outline and put on a big white board the directions your characters are going and have them walk into each other and then, most importantly, put stakes in each of them if I don't. Don't go into that safe deposit box to get the marriage certificate, if I don't get it, I can't prove that I was one. I'll lose my inheritance if I can't prove that whatever, okay, now you have steaks and then. You put the security guard where his marriage is going to fall apart if he lets you in

great

. You can almost feel the tension building.

You can also feel it on set when you have a

scene

that has these kinds of things attached to the actors. enjoy it as they can immediately, you feel it come to life, you can feel it good, how can you, suddenly the tension increases, you haven't even started working on the climbs and how you suddenly increase the tension in a

scene

like that or add and marking is 4 59 and it closes at five we haven't even gotten there yet it's just two characters with goals now it gets a lot easier to make a scene actually work that's where it always starts that's the initial build frame, right? look, go back to the nickel and dime Jimmy Dean Robert Altman it's based on a play it's from 1982 or something like that it's just a room it's a Woolworth's like Marfa Texas and all the characters are all women except one man and him It goes in and out It's kind of a flashback and just the subtleties that aren't on the nose, but you learn about the characters, then you learn about their little grievances and jealousy with each other, you learn about the small town gossip, it's all slowly revealed until the real.

The story finally comes out, but it's

great

and you're there riveted and it's a location, yes, writing scenes in a location is especially simple, just character driven without fancy gimmicks, it's the most challenging, but I think that's where all the scenes should start regardless of whether they're in space or some epic sci-fi time travel or not, because that's the basis right now if you never go to outer space or go back in time and stay in the room with the Woolworths you have no way of moving your hands to distract the audience, you have nothing that makes sense, so I think if you really want to create more complex science fiction stories, you need to be really good at writing Those simple ones start writing scenes with two characters, each of them has something they want, only one of them can win, both can lose,

write

a scene like that, that's a page-turner and you'll be amazing at writing the Great Space Opera.

It seems like it's hard to do, but if you want to succeed as a screen

write

r, you have to master it.