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Congrats on placing!! I know outlining wasn’t my thing at the beginning either because when I would try, I would give up and just start writing the script. 🤪 Then I started small, just a quick logline before I started writing. Then just the major beats. Now I’m fully beat by beat of the whole script because UCLA made us outline. It took me years to finally mold it to the way my brain works haha. Maybe since you’re visual you can try creating AI images of the major beat scenes and add it to an outline doc with a quick sentence about the beat? Could be fun but time consuming tho. 😅

Welcome to screenwriting!! It really does help internalize the structure when you watch it. It’s my favorite thing to do before or after I read the script! I try to pinpoint beginning and ends of the acts and any major beats and I’ve started teaching my family story by pointing it out too. It becomes a fun game.🤭

@@PikaLeeMedia thank you so much!! yesss i've gotten my writer friends to analyze movie beats with me and i think its helping us all improve our craft a lot!

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Yay for the same brains! I have never tackled a 100K project before, so I am rooting for you! I have friends who write Sci-Fi and Epic Fantasy primarily and I admire the heck out of them for it.

It’s incredible how we unconsciously do these little things to help ourselves write or create art! It’s really great to know what makes us tick. 😁

Thanks so much for subscribing!! Welcome and I wish you so much luck on your writing journey! 💫😄

Thanks for your comment! I did much soul searching previous to releasing this video with thoughts of using this term. It is still quite frequently used by the industry trades although becoming less common with the introduction in recent years of Diversity and Inclusion departments to solve this problem. The departments were created because audiences wanted more diversity away from a specifically white stories or only using white actors. I made the choice to use the term because of its definition as set by Miriam Webster, and the history that Hollywood in America has with this term: “to alter (something) in a way that favors, features, or caters to white people a: to portray (the past) in a way that increases the prominence, relevance, or impact of white people and minimizes or misrepresents that of nonwhite people.” I understand many may not like the term or find it taboo because it has negativity attached to it. This is why I think we should talk about it. But I do think that people with objective minds will understand the context I used to explain why I wrote stories the way I did influences from growing up watching and working in American Cinema. As well as gain perspective on their own writing. 💞

@@PikaLeeMedia Well you wouldn't say "blackwashing" or "yellowwashing" or "colorwashing" would you? Would you say we're gonna get it all colored up in there? So what's the difference? Racism is racism. I don't care what it says in some dictionary.

Thank you!! 😄

Thank youuuu!! I learned so much from those old Hollywood movies and their actors 💕 YES! I love reminding myself I have the option to bring some POC into a story to see what that story looks like.

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Yes!! I just went to the LA Phil for the first time and heard the Harry Potter scores and it was magical and moving. I will definitely be writing to it when I rewrite my fantasy. I definitely do get distracted with the lyrics sometimes in my music while writing, it’s a good point that instrumentals help so much and the length makes it that much better.

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Thanks for watching Adam!

Am I right with the twist? .....She´s dead, he´s alive?

Yes! 💯

@@PikaLeeMedia yeeeeaaaaah, I'm so intelligent 😂

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Dana!! Thanks so much ☺️

Thanks for ALWAYS supporting my writing and filmmaking. You know I appreciate you!

I love hearing that!! It makes me so happy to know another writer is bringing their own experiences with this subject into their work. 🙌

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Glad you enjoyed it!

Yes!! I felt like it was much needed motivation for my fellow neurodivergent writers. Sometimes you need a reminder that if others have made it with these challenges, you can too. 💌

Thanks for watching! The filmmakers in this video noticed they had signs of ADHD struggles (or dyslexia) since childhood, into adulthood. They wrote down any potential memories of symptoms from their life and spoke to a specialist in the health space (usually, Psychiatrist) for a professional diagnosis. It’s the absolute best way to know if you might have ADHD and get support!

Thank you for the information 🙏

Hiii!! You get me. I was completely split. But I couldn’t be happier to graduate with this certificate first. Think about trying out for the grant in their website for financial need or applying for the cert to get 10% off. Anything helps! 🤪 I can’t wait to see where we go in this industry. Hope the stand up is going well!

I get that so much! I had some setbacks that were financial and it took me quite a while to finally make it happen. I would suggest looking into the grants they give if you qualify for making less than a certain amount, it pays a portion of the class. UCLA Ext also gives you 10% off as a candidate, on your classes. Or, Sundance Collab was a *bit* more affordable. I would never suggest private loans to anyone, ever. (This is in case anyone else comes across my comment, I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t.🤪)

I’m actually not familiar with iA Writer. I’ll have to look into it! If it’s a word text editor and it has the features you’re looking for, I’d say go for it and try to customize the margins to screenplay formatting. If you want to take that work away from yourself and have a clean distraction free space, try Arc Studio or Scrivener.

Hi Venkat! I know what you mean. It is truly is a roll of the dice with instructors. I can’t tell you a better school because I think that would be universities with conservator style screenwriting programs (AFI and NYU.) Another style of teaching would be intensives with closer 1-1 teaching (Sundance Intensives, but not Sundance Collab.) Good luck on your writing and I hope that helps!

Online is self-paced and works best if you’re not able to schedule one day a week for class and work well reading lectures and applying it with little help. I prefer remote (live zoom meeting classes) where it’s interactive with instructors and classmates for one night a week. These classes are like workshops, so check out instructor bios to see which one you feel has good experience or has written in the genre you write in. I have a short Minisode about picking instructors on my channel!

I think AI misses the mark on the human side of stories right now, so it’s unusable by the industry as it is. But technology will advance and writers might one day use it. It won’t get rid of us. But it will impact our job, for better or worse.

@@PikaLeeMedia 😊 thank ou 🙏 🥰

Some things that have helped me! 1. Read your dialogue out loud, write down what you got from it vs what you wanted the words to do, rewrite until the dialogue reveals interesting things about your characters in a subtle way. Make sure there’s tension between the two talking. 2. Watch a scene similar to your scene in a really good movie. Study the scene dialogue. You might find that less dialogue or no dialogue could make the scene more interesting.

Thank you for your advice.❤❤❤😊 And about the second, it isn't make some similar scene will be obvious.

@narutomellah6038 We don’t want to copy the scenes, just learn from them. It will take practice to learn how to watch movies, analyze what makes it a good scene, and write your own scene from what you learned. 😄 If it feels too similar, ask how you can add to it to make it different?

when I will finish it can u read it for me pleasE?

I agree! Its a good tool to have.

🥲 Yup. I did that.

Thank you! 😄 Do you write screenplays?

I did wrote few for my theatre school but mainly I write poetry and currently I am working on my novel :)@@PikaLeeMedia

Poetry is so expressive! That’s awesome. Are you a fellow NaNoWriMo writer?

not yet but maybe in the future :)@@PikaLeeMedia

It was rough, but I started on week 2 and finished it mid-week on week three! 🎉

@@PikaLeeMedia Awesome, I'm working on script series too. It's hard work. Have you seen the movie: The Creator yet? If not you should definitely check it out, very emotional. Epic in everything. Just watched it for the second time today in I-MAX, that is how you make a movie. 😀

⁠@@EPICBLASIAN1I was so close to watching The Creator recently, but showings ran too late for a two hr movie. 🥲 I’ve heard great things about it! Yesss to meeting more TV writers. How’s your writing going?