writing question

[DAD68]

What is the appropriate way to write the script for a movie?

I came up with this idea for a real movie overnight and I'm starting to write out the actors I saw in the film but I'm not sure how to write the script for it.

I have gotten responses to writings in the past where I used terms like "entered the doorway" prior to the actual dialogue but I was told the "enter the door" stuff cuts the pace of the scene itself.
Do I just write the scene without the "doorway" intros or can I have them in for now?

The story (or film) I saw in my dream was about a lady that goes through several deaths in her life--including her own--but manages to come back and have a decent life.
For some reason I saw Reese Witherspoon as the lead actress along with Laurence Fishburn as her nemesis.
The scenes were very vivid with plenty of drama. I saw the scenes and heard the dialogue but have trouble putting it on paper.

I don't know what made me dream of this, but it seemed like a decent film.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

What is the appropriate way to write the script for a movie?

I came up with this idea for a real movie overnight and I'm starting to write out the actors I saw in the film but I'm not sure how to write the script for it.

I have gotten responses to writings in the past where I used terms like "entered the doorway" prior to the actual dialogue but I was told the "enter the door" stuff cuts the pace of the scene itself.
Do I just write the scene without the "doorway" intros or can I have them in for now?

The story (or film) I saw in my dream was about a lady that goes through several deaths in her life--including her own--but manages to come back and have a decent life.
For some reason I saw Reese Witherspoon as the lead actress along with Laurence Fishburn as her nemesis.
The scenes were very vivid with plenty of drama. I saw the scenes and heard the dialogue but have trouble putting it on paper.

I don't know what made me dream of this, but it seemed like a decent film.

1) Do it the way plays are written. Scene direction and dialogue.
2) Don't do it.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

1) Do it the way plays are written. Scene direction and dialogue.
2) Don't do it.

JJ should have put 2 before 1.

Studios buy about 4 grand playscripts a year and produce about 40 films. You have about as much chance as a spermatoza getting to the Holy Grail.

Look at a film, any film (or TV show). A TV show has something like 90 'scenes' in 50 minutes. The whole premise is based on continual dialogue. The scenic shots are just fillers.

Jenny is wrong, screenplays (teleplays) are a heck of sight different from stage plays.