Screenwriting 101: Alisha Brophy
“Recently, we spent months working on a feature that took us, I’d say, a paragraph to explain to people, because we’d go into the reason…
“Recently, we spent months working on a feature that took us, I’d say, a paragraph to explain to people, because we’d go into the reason why we wanted to write it, and what we were exploring with it, and the gist of it. We wasted months spinning our wheels, and then one day realized that this side character who’s only in two scenes was more interesting than anything else we were doing with this project. We said, ‘Screw it.’ Scrapped the whole feature. Started a new idea that was based on this one character because it was instantly like, ‘Oh, it’s this!’ There was a single logline idea about this guy. Now this is our favorite project. It’s so easy to pitch in one sentence. The writing, it’s coming more easily because the one simple logline gives you the throughline for the whole project. When you’re writing the pages as long as you’re sticking to that throughline, it’s sticking to the promise that you made in that logline. You’re golden.”
— Alisha Brophy