When Your Screenplay is Really a Stage Play

The last screenplay I was hired to evaluate had an interesting premise, but the story was told in a series of dialogs, with very little action and too much Q& A.

I recommended that the writer make hundreds of changes or consider redeveloping the story as a stage play, since stage plays tilt more toward telling the story through dialog, while screenplays tend to be more of a visual experience.

Click on the video link below to see an excellent example of visual storytelling. This one-minute commercial contains no dialog, yet it speaks volumes:

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