BASS - Screenwriter Ron Bass is one of Hollywood's top screenwriters. In the above video clip, Ron Bass spoke to Cyber Film School about the craft of screenwriting, the importance of preparation and the rules of screenwriting. Ron Bass shares more useful writing tips as his interview continues on the CFS Movie School Encyclopedia CD-ROM . It is the screenplay that structures the thematic story of the film and provides the plot and characters.
Scripts supply the linguistic and structural blueprint to a visual, motion medium.
They provide language, order and organizational coherence for the filmmaker. It is the screenwriter's job to put the words on the page, and to develop identifiable character arcs, narrative structure and themes. Any script needs to find its own voice. This means that it must have its own, independent sense of structure or story development. The idea initiates the writing of the script.