How to Write a Screenplay
.Those Mysterious Eyes. Definition A screenplay is a blue print for production of a film. It contains all the necessary instructions for shooting a movie including dialogue and action. Whether a scene is to be filmed indoors or outdoors, whether it is daytime or night time, whether you are inside a bar or a farm house - all this and much more goes into the making of a script. You also need to include appropriate instruction for sound and lighting as also for closing and opening of scenes. Typically, one page of a script equals to one minute of shooting. So, 90 pages of a script yield around the same length of a movie. However, the above technicalities do not undermine the sheer appeal of a screenplay as a piece of creative writing. If you happen to read the screenplay of The Sixth Sense (1999) by M. Night Shyamalan, such is the magnetism that you can’t put it down before finishing it. To put it simply, a screenplay must be a great reading experience as well apart from the fact t...