Point of View - Screenwriting

Is your main character the POV character in all their scenes?

Don't let you be the POV or your reader be the POV or the audience be the POV.

Your main character should be the POV.

Start and end the scene with your main character.  Make sure their want is driving the scene and everything else in the scene is an obstacle.

Point of View

Every scene your main character is in....show their pov and show them acting for or against what is happening.

If another character is driving hard in the scene...make your main character drive harder.  Even if they might "lose" in the scene...they should be fighting every step of the way.

Point of View - Screenwriting

Passive Point of View - Scene after scene we watch the same character being pushed around, arguing, or just floating.

Active Point of View - Scene after scene we watch the same character pushing, struggling, making different acts, attempts, tries, toward reaching a specific goal. 

Screenwriting - Denial of Voices

Have you ever decided while you were writing that you were not going to have a certain character in your story?

For example, you might say well in this story I don't want there to be any news reporters.  Or I don't want the cops to be involved.

But while your writing, your intuition is saying that "if this thing happened, the police would know about it".

Don't deny that voice.  Don't deny that character.

If your intuition says that character should come into play, then you've got to do it.  Your intellect can't stop what your intuition wants.  You got to play fair.  And you'll see it makes the story better.

Stories are about two characters battling over something and sometimes it may be that voice you're denying, that ends up tip the balance and ending the story.