![]() You most likely wouldn’t pair up for a screenwriting partnership with someone who wrote dark horror if you wrote only light and airy romance. When you’re used to writing alone, being a team player is not always an easy task.įortunately for Erik and me we were both on the same page when it came to creating the screenplay together. One of the biggest challenges for me, as a writer who usually works alone was to find a way to write together with someone without feeling the need to “take charge” and take over the screenplay. There are, however, more important things to consider than whether your name is going to make the headlines when you’re working with someone else and those include being able to write something meaningful, engaging and directed at the right audience while maintaining a clear path to complete the screenplay without conflict arising.īehind the Scenes during production of Driving Shame, a 30 Daze Productions short movie, Actors Dominic Peterson and Sierra Ann Ford Building an Effective Writing Team Screenwriting partnerships like those have made it look incredibly easy to sit down and write a script with a partner.Ī question that Erik and I have both been asked more times than we can count is, “Is it easy to work with a partner on a screenplay?” Our answer has resoundingly been, of course it is! Who knows, maybe one day the Caito/Kitchens screenwriting duo will be a household name just as Affleck/Damon and the Coen’s already are. Joel and Ethan Coen hit the ground running in 1995 with Blood Simple.įrom that point, they have worked together on hits including Raising Arizona (1987) The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000), No Country for Old Men (2007) and recently, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) among more than twenty other film works since they got started. In 1997, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon wrote Good Will Hunting and while they haven’t written a screenplay together since, the film helped launch both into the limelight and on the road to success in the film industry.Īnother incredible screenwriting partnership that comes to mind is of course, the Coen brothers. When you think about screenwriting partnerships it’s easy to think of writing teams who have built very successful careers due to the work they have done together. 5 Ways a Screenwriting Partnership Worked While Writing a First Movie And How it Continues to Work Today But when all is said and done, we like to say we wrote a brilliant script in just two days. We, of course, took time after those initial two days to tweak some scenes and add other content to the script. I am Angela Caito and together with Erik Kitchens, the founder of our company 30 Daze Productions, we partnered to write the screenplay for our first short film, Driving Shame.Įrik already had a storyline in mind and in under two days (yes, I said two days!) the two of us worked round the clock to bang out what we felt was an incredible script for our movie. Filmmaker Angela Caito will take you through her process in detail and I’m sure there will be plenty of a-ha moments here! ![]() Today, we have an article on screenwriting that teaches you a process of how to screen write.
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