How To Write A Nigeria Movie Script
This article will discuss how to write Nigeria movie script and it will cover the pros and cons of a two-page or five-page story format. I will include sample projects that were written in this format and my thoughts on them.
I will also discuss the challenges encountered by these project authors.
This article will also discuss a writing tip that can improve the quality of your Nigerian movie script.
The two-page story format consists of a set of ten single-spaced pages and are usually written in twelve point font. The idea behind this format is that readers should be able to comfortably hold the story in their mind for at least twenty minutes.
Here are some possible questions that might occur when you start to write a story like this:
- Is this a one-time story?
- Is this a multi-part story?
- Is this a multiple-person narrative?
- Does the story require exposition?
- Does the story require action?
- Is the story a mixture of genre’s?
- Is there an interlude?
- Are there story arcs?
- Does the story require character arcs?
- Is the story action-packed?
Once you answer these questions, you can start writing your story.
Write your story in this format
Don’t do what I did when I started out writing my first script. I started in standard six.
I spent most of my youth writing short stories that had only ten pages and there was no one thing that I was trying to say. I was just writing as my characters took me to, or took me away from, the actual story.
Since the problem with writing stories that are longer than three pages is that you can’t fully tell a story in two pages, here is how you can easily avoid this:
1. The first two pages are written in the present tense.
You should spend at least a third of this page introducing your story, making clear who your protagonist is, why he is doing what he’s doing, and his ultimate goal.
If you get through this first two pages without getting stuck, then you’ve got a fighting chance of doing this without any major grammatical problems.
2. Once you’ve gotten into your story, your lead character should address someone directly and say, “Hey! I know you’re a sociopath, but I’m thinking of teaming up with you.”
Don’t forget that you need some drama, so you need to include some exposition. This is a good time to throw in a last-minute, realistic plot twist, just for fun.
3. As your lead character and your antagonist get deeper into their conflict, you’ll want to spend less time talking about it and more time actually writing it.
Your antagonist’s conflicts will force him to do the things that he does, so in these pages, you will want to spend at least another third of the page showing that he is exactly like that.
4. Finally, we have the epilogue or concluding paragraph.
You will want to spend most of this page explaining what has happened, and finally, if you have a two-part story, you will probably want to throw in an end-of-story cliffhanger.
The advantage of the two-page format is that it works well with movies that have a self-contained story and that is free to do things that will get the movie back on track without having to be perfect, and, in fact, working with a two-page format makes it easier to slip into it.
In summary, here is the basic format for writing a story like the Nigerian movie script:
1. The beginning of the story is written in the present tense.
2. As the story develops, you will add a few sentences in the past tense to tell readers what happened before the story.
3. Then, at some point, you’ll want to switch to past tense, because the characters will be moving toward their future. You will have to decide when this should happen, and when it does, you’ll have to reorient the story’s structure, so you’ll need to write at least one extra line to connect the change to the main narrative.
4. The story ends on the note that is written before the present tense.
5. If you have a three-part story, you will write the first and third parts of the story before writing the second and last part.
If you don’t have a three-part story, you should write the second and third parts of the story first.
6. If you have a two-part story, you will write the first part before writing the second part.
7. You should write the ending at the very end of the story.
These seven steps make it possible to start a story that is complex, multi-part, and with many small scenes, but that doesn’t become convoluted, convoluted, or at least considerably longer than the necessary duration of the story.
There is more than one way to write a screenplay.