Get some tips from the genre-bending Oscar winner.
What’s your favorite Taika Waititi screenplay? The guy always seems to be working on outside-the-box ideas that focus on big, human emotions and characters.
When it comes time to write your own work, he’s someone to look to when you develop your own voice as a writer.
No one knows more about your experience than you. So if you are writing about other people, go find someone like your character. Interview them, spend time with them, and get the details that make those people authentic. You have to do the leg work, not just make it up.
And some of that legwork is listening to the advice of others.
Check out this video from Outstanding Screenplays, and let’s go over the lessons after the jump.
Author: Jason Hellerman
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