Actual 'WRITING' For ACTORS

I take Script Writing Courses at my place and also ONLINE. One of my Students in a previous Batch was an Actor. He was hesitant before joining the course. He didn't feel right to sit with other Fellow Writers, learning screenwriting, as he was and is a big name in the industry. So he opted for ONLINE Course.

He was doing a Film that time, in the process. But he was stuck at his work. He couldn't understand the Script well, the details of it. He made the Writer of the Film come to the sets and explain everything, still he failed. Director was with him, his lead Actor wasn't able to portray the Character correctly. The Writer of that Film went on to take another assignment and distanced himself from the Project and this egoistic Actor.

The Actor had failed to take his right emotions out. The Director, a friend of mine, suggested him to learn Writing to understand the Film and the Character entirely. So he came to me.

I taught him Script Structures and Character build-up and other things. He began to open up with his doubts and started understanding the meaning behind the words and the overall process of Writing a Film Script.

He applied this new-found in his work as an actor. He would break the Film's Script down so that, without really knowing it, he was studying its structure in the sense of what it was the Characters wanted. He realised that that’s really much more important than the result of the Character: what do they want, what causes the conflict between them, what is the structure of the scene, what is the overall through-line of the Film's Story, what is the spine, what does everything kind of hold on to. That was one way in which he could instinctually, as an actor, work on trying to understand the Film's Script. He was happy and so was I.