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The Cheat Code I Use To Develop Screenplay Ideas — Jason-Shane Scott
Film Courage: You’re writing one screenplay after another that is getting produced, how are you coming up with all these ideas? Can you take us through the process?
Jason-Shane Scott, Actor/Screenwriter: I think a big part of it is every time you sit down to pitch you’re coming up with a handful, several ideas. I wouldn’t say there’s too much of a technique. I definitely have an idea day that I take and for lack of better terms I just think there’s definitely the old carry around a notepad and write down things that you see once in a blue moon that’ll happen a certain situation you’ll see happen in life like Oh that’s okay, that you could build that out into an actual movie.
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Then I use a sort of a cheat code sometimes of just starting small. Start with:
-What’s the female lead’s job?
-What could be more interesting about that?
