FilmThe 5 things you need to know about making a Film or TV Series

Everyone thinks they have a story inside them, and they probably do, but the process to get the story told is complex, the journey is long and the industry almost impossible to penetrate.

ONE: How to get you story down on paper…

I had never written a script for a TV Series/Film before, but I had done quite a lot of writing articles and papers. There are many people that write books about writing, and many You Tube videos and master classes. Some useful, others not.

What are you writing? A book/novel. a TV show or Film. Each has there own complexities and challenges. The issues is you have a lot of writing ahead of you, or I should say re-writes. Some people work on this basis and crunch out a basic plot, with basic characters. Others relate to personal experiences and base their writings on something that happened. Others just start writing, but a structure is useful but not necessarily a start, middle and end. As you could start with the end and work backwards.

The one thing I have learnt is there is not right way, and if you hesitate, you won’t find out much about yourself, as the journey of a writer is internalised. The story, the passion the ideas often comes from deep within and takes a huge effort to get onto paper. But you have to love writing, want…