There’s no business like show business, and now you can be a part of it in the comfort of your own home. With movie screen.com, a web site brought onto the scene in 1997, the average Joe can become Mr. Joe, big-time screenwriter. The site allows anyone to contribute to one of six screenplays, which will ultimately become six feature films. A huge task, but well worth it for those eager to be a part of and learn the basics of screenwriting.
A visually pleasing site greets visitors, very good at keeping the audience coming back for more. It opens onto the exterior of a virtual movie complex. Clicking your way through a true-to-life lobby, then through the doors into the theater, you can finally take a seat and learn how the site works. Move over AMC Mercado, this little virtual theater is quite snappy.
Basically, there are six genres to choose from: comedy, romance, horror, action-adventure, sci-fi, and family drama. Once you decide what kind of film you want to write for, there is a step by step guide on how to start writing. The tips and the organization process are helpful for first time screenwriters. From establishing characters to setting up a plot twist, the basics are covered. The key word here, though, is basics, because anyone planning on making a living from writing scripts would need a more expansive lesson plan.
Visitors submit various story ideas that are up for critique by fellow movie screen.com fans and are available for hours of reading. Going through the many movie treatments can become tedious, even reading the one script that is already in progress. Everything is detailed out, unlike a script that just has dialogue and brief setting notes. Sometimes you might wonder if you are visiting Write-A-Very-Long-Novel.com, if there is actually such a site. But if you have the time, “may the force be with you.”
As mentioned before, the only genre with a set script idea is action-adventure, leaving the other genres open for script proposals. Once a script is selected, the site will guide visitors through the nine steps of writing a three-act film.
These budding writers can collaborate anytime during the process, and each day the best characters, ideas, scenes, and dialog will be chosen.
movie screen.com is an entertaining site, simple, yet unique, with the potential to transform its visitors into contributing writers for feature films. Best of all, you don’t have to deal with pesky publicists or money hungry producers staring down your back. So, be a screenwriter, or just feel like one.
