Imagine your story as a silent movie and write a series of short paragraphs that describe what an audience would see from beginning to end. Without a word spoken, the tensions between Muslims and Jews and the widespread prejudice they both face are effectively depicted through action – and given a ray of hope. From either side of the tracks, the two men briefly celebrate their triumph and then go their separate ways. They jump from the car to the platform on either side of the train just as the subway doors close and before the angry thugs can reach them. With violence imminent, both men scramble to their feet at the next stop and race to the opened doors pursued by the startled neo-Nazis. When the first man’s cell-phone suddenly ring-tones the popular Hebrew song, Hava Nagila, the thugs now turn their scowling attention to him – they hate all ‘ethnics’. Three other men sporting shaved heads and neo-Nazi tattoos spot the newspaper-reading man and begin their intimidation by spray-painting his paper and planting a boot on his seat. On a French subway, a young man wearing a Star of David pendant sits across from another young man reading an Arabic-printed newspaper. Geri demonstrates his lively imagination as he moves from one side of the chess table to the other, alternately playing the black and the white sides while giving himself the persona of a crafty chess wizard battling a hesitant, glasses-wearing version of himself. But it’s not a conventional story of the loneliness of old age.
Written and directed by Jan Pinkava and produced by Pixar, this five-minute comedy involves only one character, an elderly man playing chess by himself. Geri’s Game won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short in 1998.A good way to enhance your skills in writing action and use one of the professional story hacks is to write a short script with no dialogue at all.Ī number of strong short films have been created without a single spoken word. Some moviegoers mistakenly believe that a screenwriter only writes what the actors say and that the film’s director and cinematographer supply what the actors do, but of course screenwriters write both dialogue and action and need them to work in tandem to tell a feature story effectively. Developing scenes or entire short film screenplays without dialogue will focus your story’s essentials.
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