We often get stuck trying to figure out how to end our stories. Gordy discusses one tool to organically work towards a solution for the final act of your tv pilot or feature film screenplay. How do you figure out how to end your screenplay? Let us know!
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Yes when you think you have a story’s first draft, really thinking about what the characters look like, whether they care about how their hair looks, if they have a download on their iPad so they can read instead of wasting time… Brings many layers that help the ending.
I love coming full circle at the end of the screenplay and letting that emotional climax and transition take over to deliver the spiritual from the flesh as the ultimate reason why the storytelling has transported us into a make-believe realm not tangible through our own imagination or vision in a dimension or dispensation that cannot be accessed without God revealing it to us.
God Bless You. Thank You. Yes. My script Doors of Miracles was written as described.
Patricia Poulos
I like a full circle ending with obvious internal, external and interpersonal growth.
I know the ending tentatively, and as the story progresses if the characters have changed in a significant way so to will the end. I’m working on one now where my end i thought was solid, but I see how the characters have changed and now I’m not so sure the end I had would be the best one for maximum impact.
I always know my beginning and I always know my ending. What I don’t always know is how I’m going to get there.
I more often than not feel the same way. The beginning and ending I pretty much know and the middle part of the script is where most of compilations are. Life of the writer.
LOL.
From one day to the next I surprise myself. Some of my stories come out of stream of conscious or free-writing exercises. Others, however, have come from knowing the ending and then writing towards that ending.
I like to have some kind of echo from the opening scene – sometimes means re-writing both!
Music that speaks to the story or characters (whether heard or not in the screenplay) really creates avenues to get there for me.
I tend to know my endings. My starting point can sometimes be a little murky, tho.
Walking and talking is helpful.
In this script, I actually rewrote the ending. It could have ended several ways, but I chose something that was said earlier by one of the main characters to really come to light in the last scene.