Quoted from Alex_212 Hey Anthony, Have to say more goes into a Synopsis as you need to outline the story, input all your ideas and then beat it out. Thereafter writing the screenplay is a "Piece of Piss". That's an Aussie term for easy. Regards Alex

There's one thing I don't get... what's the point of "beating it out"?  I mean, no one reads the beat sheet anyway.  Just my two cents, but cinema would be better if things weren't so "planned" all the time.

Anyway.  Synopsis' are simple enough to write.  Just grab a novel, like... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and follow its example.  The whole story condensed with a cliffhanger end sentence.  Perfection.

An opinion I hear all the time about writing (spec) screenplays is... nail your concept, log-line and synopsis down before you even type 'FADE IN' on your screenwriting software.

Have I always done this?  No.  

Do I do it now?  Yes.

Feel free to discuss...

A couple suggestions I can make here:

1) Hire a professional reader.

It's part of the job for a development grunt to write synops.
Always needed for new script coming into the prodco, etc.
Synops are second nature to those types.

2) Compare & Contrast.

Gather synops from colleagues of scripts of theirs you've read.
I could send you the official synop for Clone Wife.
But that only helps you, if you've read the script. LOL!
I can e-mail that to you, if it would help.

Good luck!

Regards,
E.D.

Hey Brett, Clone Wife is on my reading list.  I'll start reading it tomorrow....if you want to send my the synopsis lol.

Quoted from irish eyes You can pay someone to write it for you. Mark

Funny Mark.

Would a plumber pay another plumber to fix the leaky taps in his house ???

Same scenario !!!