A typical example of a script is as follows:
Inside a public house
Wang Ma: (carefully) Miss, you still have to take care of your body, just eat something.
Miss Zhao: (smashing the bowl on the floor) No, I just don't eat.
(Wang Ma down)
The structure of a play
A longer play often consists of a number of different paragraphs, and in different kinds of drama, different units are used to distinguish between paragraphs. In Western theater, the Act is commonly used as a large unit, and under the Act there are many smaller scenes. The Chinese Yuan dynasty plays use the "Fold" as a unit, and the Southern operas use the "Out" as a unit, which represents the order of the actors' entrances and exits, but after the creation of the literati in the Ming dynasty, the "Out" was changed to the more complex "Out". The "out" was changed to the more complex "out" after the creation of the literati in the Ming Dynasty.
The structure of a play can generally be divided into "beginning, development, twist, climax, and then climax ending". Of course, according to the different skills of screenwriters, the structure will also change. The first is the "good" play.
Writing a screenplay is like designing a house, there are no definitions, no limitations, but there are many variations, but there are skills and experience. The most important thing to remember is that you can't trust the words of a famous person or the words of a common person. Ultimately, you have to look at the famous plays to see what is famous, and look at your own plays to see the gaps. In Shakespeare's time, there were not as many rules and regulations as there are today, and Shakespeare's plays are still performed today.
In fact, theater is an experiment. It is as if the novel is a theoretical science, and the theater is an experimental science. The novel is written in a beautiful and perfect way, and then printed out. Drama is not, no matter how well written, have to go through the director, the actors, through the costumes, choreography, music, play out dozens of rounds on the stage, after the audience's reaction, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. A good play must be rewritten for at least a year to several years. In this regard, any book on playwriting is not a bible, and cannot be blindly copied; its rules and regulations are all based on experience. Experience is a superposition of localized experiences, and there are times when you can't see the forest for the trees, so you can learn from it, but you can't believe in it. Everything should be used for my use, ready to break the format, push the new.
But there are some basic principles that you should know, like a house has pillars and beams, it has to be load-bearing and stable. Because the troupe has to spend a lot of money, with many people, with one or two months of precious time, in your script on a play, like real estate developers according to your drawings to build a house. A bad script is a labor of love to the extreme. Actors direct years of training to perform the play you wrote. The audience spends a lot of money to honestly sit in a dark house, motionless, for two hours. This is very much against human normality, and demands that your play give the audience enough enjoyment to teach him that it is worth his sacrifice. In Beijing, the audience has to eat early, or else they are starving, and ride a long way to find your theater. They have to endure all these tortures to come to your theater. You have to make the audience enjoy and make him feel that all the sacrifices are worthwhile. And, next time, he will make a bigger sacrifice to come to your theater.
Every word of yours eats up a lot of other people's blood, sweat and money. Think every moment, is the word worth it?
The content of the play:
1. Characters: the main characters related to the conflict.
2. Theme: about what? It must be about something worthwhile.
3. Structure: the overall design of the story as it is presented on stage.
4. Conflict: the driving force of the drama.
5. stage set: the visual content
6. subtext: the character's words in moderation.
7. Ideology: your own opinions and values.
8. Voice: your own unique voice as a playwright
Before I continue, I would like to make a few clarifications:
Firstly, I have not seen many plays in this country, but I have seen a few problems. There is a little too much water in the play, combined with a lack of skill in the script, which always makes people impatient, and some of them are really a waste of actors.
The second is that the occasional writing of "theater is not art" has given rise to different points of view. It's good to know that if there are no different sides to the coin, it must be false. If you've ever worried about your job, you'll understand that theater is actually an industry. Just like catering is an industry, travel agency is an industry, IT is an industry. It has to be made solidly as an industry first before there is fertile ground for art.
Thirdly, I feel that the script is the form of writing that requires the least "attainment" and dogma in literature. Look at the theater inside the play for a long time, the playwright with attainments, write something is difficult to penetrate the reality, and life in the experienced amateur writers, there are in-depth social feelings and experience. A little knowledge of the basics of the script, you can write a moving book. What China lacks is such a fascinating and moving script.