Abstract:
This study aims to compile a practical guide for film screenwriting accompanied by theoretical
explanations, practical steps and theoretical applicatives. Through this kind of method, it is expected to
be able to foster interest in writing film screenplays and provide good screenwriting skills and
techniques. The author had the idea to make a film entitled "ONCE IN A BLUE MOON" which tells
the story of a man who has PTSD and how he moves on from his dark past. The research method that
the author poured into this study is an important step that the author must go through to write a
screenplay such as looking for ideas that will be poured by the writer, which is implemented into a
character named Dhika who has PTSD, then making a premise that tells briefly how Dhika can have
PTSD, his dark past and can be separated from his PTSD, after that the author makes a synopsis that
contains all the main information material to be made into a film, so that through this synopsis the
screenwriter can develop it into a complete screenplay, after that the author continues this research by
making a treatment where the making of treatment helps the preparation of the dramatic structure of a
screenplay. Treatment contains scenes written in outline, then the last writer makes the screenplay script
so that it becomes a script that is ready to be implemented into a film. The film "Once in The Blue
Moon" is a drama film scenario with the format of the problem and how to apply characterization in
screenwriting. The film "Once in The Blue Moon" uses concepts from the 3-dimensional theory of
characters. It can be concluded that the theory can be used to develop character writing screenplays for
the film "Once in The Blue Moon". In this theory there are 3 main aspects. The first aspect is the
character's environment, the second aspect where the main character's psychology begins to be
disturbed, Athird spec is physical. Of these three aspects, the 3-dimensional theory of character really
helps the author to create characters with PTSD.
