Guest Speaker: Brian Strassman

Screenwriting professor at DSU

• Screenwriting is the true architecture of the whole business. Our voice is what gets us past the readers to the agents.
• 4 page double spaced treatment.
• Everyone has flops.
• Know your ending, know where you are going- the exact moments.
• The firm, great film to watch for structure.
• Midpoint- change of events.
• Plot point- most Hollywood/American films. 
• Ex. Dan in Real Life.
• Have your film take a hard left or right so people are left saying, "Whoa, what now?'
• Hardest to write in a screenplay.
• Treatment is just about your story, not necessarily the details of the characters.
• Know your subject.
• Picabo advice: Danger, what drives you?
• Velocity Girl.