10 Screenwriting tips from Chloé Zhao on how she wrote Nomadland - 10 Lessons from the Screenplay

👇 NOW OPEN for Screenplay Submissions‼️ Click the link below to Enter 📝🏆👇 https://writers.coverfly.com/competit... Chloé Zhao is a Chinese screenwriter and filmmaker who is known primarily for her work in independent U.S. films. Her debut feature film, Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015), premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Her second feature film, The Rider (2017), was critically praised and received nominations for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film and Best Director. Chloe Zhao gained further success with Nomadland (2020) starring Frances McDormand which won many awards, including Best Director at the Golden Globe Awards, Directors Guild of America Awards and British Academy Film Awards. She is currently nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing at the 93rd Academy Awards. Chloe Zhao has recently ventured into blockbuster filmmaking with the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Eternals, slated for release in November 2021. 1. Use your protagonist as a guide and let them anchor your audience through their intimate experience so they feel more comfortable experiencing everything around them without getting lost. 2. The people, the places and the communities that are around today will someday disappear. So what you ought to do as a filmmaker is capture and represent these people and places in a way that they want to be remembered. 3. Going backwards in your story is how you create a character’s emotional arc that is strong enough to compel the audience. 4. For certain types of films, it could be damaging to get rid of a specific moment or a scene just to keep a consistent tone throughout the film. It won’t be perfect, the beauty is in making it yours. 5. You can be inspired by other mediums like videogames and incorporate the elements that you like into your film. But with imitating another medium, new problems arise so you need to find creative solutions to solve them. 6. Use real people for the authenticity of the story and then create new fictional characters as protagonists that need more plot points and require more depth within that world that already exists. 7. Never shoot a scene without a treatment. Even if you know your scenes are going to be mostly improvised, you still need to have a plan for what needs to happen in the scene. 8. To make the scenes feel realistic, try to make the audience think that you just showed up with a camera and the scene happened. And to do that, you need to plan 3 times more than the usual shoots. 9. Don’t try to preach something to your audience, rather give them situations and let them decide for themselves. Make your protagonist a docent, rather than a teacher. 10. No matter how big your film is, you’re always working with the same core group of people. On bigger projects, they might just have more people with them, helping them achieve the common goal. Follow us on our main Instagram:   / outstanding.screenplays   Follow us on our video Instagram:   / outstandingscreenplays   Follow us on Twitter:   / outscreenplays   Follow us on Facebook:   / outstandingscreenplays   Support us on Patreon:   / outstandingscreenplays   #chloezhao #nomadland #FrancesMcDormand #chloézhao #screenplay #screenwriting #screenwriter #screenwritingtips