Do you have some great ideas for movies but no idea how to get them out to the producers who can actually make them into a film? Do you often go to the movies and think that you can do better and have better ideas when it comes to movie making? If so, you should know that the internet has given you options that were never before possible when it came to breaking into movie writing.
There are a few ways that you can break into movie writing – you can know a producer who will listen to your ideas, you can write a screenplay that is something unique that the producers will love or you can pitch your ideas on the internet. Two of these ideas can be costly and time consuming, but pitching your ideas online is easy. In some cases, you only need an idea concept of about 300 words in order to get the attention of a producer.
Here is the lowdown on how to break into movie writing:
Pitching your idea to a producer
This works great if you happen to know a producer. Most of us do not know any producers. Even those who do know producers have a difficult time with this as the producers are often busy and will often make empty promises to their friends. Pitching your idea to a producer may seem like a great way to break into movie writing, but it is a long shot at best.
Writing an original screenplay
You can break into the movies if you write an original screenplay aka Good Will Hunting or Rocky, both written by two unknowns. However, their success is overshadowed by the millions of people who are out there with screenplays that never made it to the screen because they could not even get an assistant to look at it. A screenplay takes time and money to write. It takes a lot of blood sweat and tears. And few people have the ability to write purely for speculation. Writing an original screenplay is better than the pitch, but can be difficult to get it even read, at best.
Use a movie ideas website
When you post your movie ideas on a movie ideas website, you are getting your idea across to the general public who will be going to the movies. Because it is under common copyright, you do not have to worry about anyone stealing your idea, but you can get the idea out to the public who will be going to the movies and getting their reaction. The internet has changed the way that Hollywood determines what will be a hit when it comes to the movies. One of the ways that they are using to gage hit movies is to use the internet and the reaction of the pubic to the movie ideas that are posted online. If you use a movie ideas website, you can gage the reaction of the public to your movie idea as well as perhaps get the attention of a movie producer. This can be your best option when trying to break into movie writing.

Are you interested in getting your movie ideas discovered not only by movie producers but also by the movie going public? Then you have to stop thinking about creating movies and start writing your movie ideas down on paper. The only way that you are going to get your movie ideas from your head to the screen is if you actually put some work towards your movie ideas.
When was the last time you went to the movies and thought to yourself “I can do better than that!” If you have been going recently, you probably said this to yourself quite often. And you probably can do better than what is out there in the theaters now. It seems as if Hollywood has run out of ideas and simply has to hash up the same old plots. If you have something better, you owe it to the public to put it on paper and have it discovered so that it can be made into a movie. Who knows – you may be the one accepting the Oscar at the next Academy Awards presentation.
So how do you get your ideas from your head and into the head of some producer who will make it into a film? Here are some tried and true methods:
Contact a producer or his agent
Get on the phone and look for an agent or producer who will agree to meet with you. You may have to blow your own horn a bit to try to get this to happen, but once you set up a meeting, which producers do all of the time, you an then pitch your idea to the producer. If he likes it, he might want to hear more. If not, you will not hear from him again, despite his promises to call.
The drawback to this method is that it costs a lot of money to be taking producers out to lunch and it can also be very frustrating trying to get a producer to agree to take a meeting with an unknown. You have to be very persistent and not allow rejection to bother you.
Write your own screenplay
Do you know how to write a screenplay? You can do this by getting a book on how to write a screenplay and following the examples in the book. A screenplay is about 120 pages long and mostly tells the story in dialogue. The screenplay is basically an idea for a movie but is not the movie script itself. It will outline the movie for the director and the script writer so that they can add more dialogue. You have to be familiar with film and terminology in order to write an effective screenplay. Then you have to either try to pitch it yourself or get an agent to pitch it for you. The problem with getting an agent is that you cannot get one if you do not have anything sold and will have a hard time getting anything sold without an agent.
Use a movie site
Get your movie ideas really out there on a movie idea website. You can find a movie idea website that will allow you to post your movie ideas and even get feedback from other writers. Some sites will actually work with producers to get you a deal if your movie ideas are intriguing enough for them to want to make into a film. The best aspect of using a movie site to post your movie ideas is that you can get instant feedback as to how the movie is received as well as a chance to get discovered by a producer.

As many of you know, a screenplay is broadly divided into three acts:

1. The beginning (Setup) that is 22 to 30 pages long,

2. Middle (confrontation or conflict) that is about 60 pages long, and

3. End (Resolution) that is about 25 to 30 pages long.

But what most fresh screenwriters don’t seem to understand correctly and make a technical mistake in is the first act (the beginning or the setup) where their writing indicates their misunderstanding of the difference between the inciting incident and plot point I, the two major highs in the first act.

Let’s have a look at the definitions in order to make it easy for us to properly differentiate between the two screenplay elements and consequently be able to write Act I of our screenplays in the most effective way possible:

What is the Inciting Incident?

An inciting incident is the event that throws the everyday life of the protagonist out of balance. The event;

• must NOT has to do anything with the will of the protagonist,

• doesn’t necessarily have to be the reaction of something the protagonist did at the start of the screenplay, and

• must NOT be the reaction of something the protagonist did in his life that existed before the start of the screenplay.

What is the Plot Point I?

Plot point I or the first turning point in a screenplay is the event that takes place either by the will of the protagonist himself or without his will and forces his circumstances to a whole new direction. The plot point I is the result of the inciting incident.

The above definitions of the two elements of Act I may make you think that the inciting incident is the biggest thing that occurs in Act I. If it is indeed the case, you are actually disagreeing with the screenwriting coaches who teach in screenwriting academic programs and those screenwriting experts who have written and published books on screenwriting as those screenwriting courses and books which talk about plot point I in details maintain that the plot point I is the most biggest thing that happens in Act I. And you know what? They are absolutely right.

Let me explain it to you.

Regardless of which one of the two appears to be the biggest event in Act I, it will remain the fact that plot point I is the biggest one of the two because it is the plot point I that turns the story into a whole new, more conflicting and progressive direction. Moreover, the inciting incident complements the plot point I and the case is not the opposite. In this regard plot point I is taken into consideration as the biggest event of Act I among Hollywood professionals.

Now that you are aware of the difference between the inciting incident and plot point I, it’s time now to start writing. So do it!Copyright (C) 2007-2008 M.d Tabish Faraz. All Rights Reserved