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A screenplay is a product. It tells a story. You can write the story as a pitch, as a treatment, as a novel or as a screenplay. Both are required in order to tell your story on film.
You can do anything you like after you write a screenplay.
Learning to write a screenplay can be a daunting task. It is best to enroll in an accredited program where one can study screenwriting such as the New York Film Academy, FullSail and the Academy of Art Institute offers.
Steve Kloves wrote the screenplay for films 1-4 and 6-8. Michael Goldenburg wrote the screenplay for film 4, or Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
It depends on if you like to write or not. If you've never written anything in your life, it will be very difficult! Even if you wrote books all the time it would still be very hard and take a great deal of time!Another AnswerWriting a screenplay -- 120 pages for a full-length feature film -- is an iterative process. Once you write it the first time, you'll re-write it again and again, until somebody buys it.Your first challenge is to find or develop a new, imaginative and interesting story that you can tell in three acts on film -- that hasn't already been told on film.
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Yes Melissa did write the screenplay for Twilight:D
Jodi Picoult wrote the novel "My Sister's Keeper" on which the movie is based. However, she was not involved in writing the screenplay for the film adaptation.
Screenplay was written by Colin Welland
No, the director seldom writes the screenplay. The director always directs the film, and the screenwriter always writes the film. Sometimes the director writes the screenplay and sometimes the screenwriter directs the film, but these are rare occurences.
You should not write a screenplay like you would write a novel, or an essay, or newspaper column or any other writing. A screenplay follows a rigorous format and tells a story.