rom camera movement to dialogue. For example here is the opening sequence to The Green Mile which was a movie based on one of Stephen King’s novel. Frank Darabont wrote the screenplay. WHISPERING VOICE (V.O.) You love your sister? You make any noise, know what happens? And off that horrible voice, we CUT TO: INT. GEORGIA PINES NURSING HOME- MORNING(PRESENT DAY) A CLOCK RADIO spews the morning weather report, abruptly pulling us into the present with a prediction of rain. PAUL EDGECOMB, late 70's/early 80's, wakes to another day... INT. PAUL'S ROOM - MORNING Paul stands at his bathroom mirror, meticulously buttoning his shirt. He picks up a hairbrush, starts tidying his hair... INT. CORRIDOR - MORNING THE OLD AND INFIRM haunt these corridors like ghosts. A WOMAN inches along on a walker. A MAN shuffles by with a rolling I.V. stand. The floor is a limey, institutional green. Here you can see how screenplays are actually different. They are not written like normal novels, but instead have more a script feel to them. The scenes are really just given right away or set off and then built up. They do go details about the set, little details which help the complete image tell its’ story. The screenplay focuses more on the action of the characters. Dialogue is set up like a script instead of using quotations. These are some differences between a screenplay and a story.When writing a story, the author obviously does not need to say what the camera does or where the characters should be standing in relation to each other. When an author writes a story it is basically composed of the plot, setting, characters, conflict, and a theme. The author most likely is not thinking like a director when they write their...
