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In Late, Out Early

When Goldman wrote “get in late and leave early”, he was not talking about how you watch a bad movie. He...

posted on: Jul 28, 2010 | author: Karel Segers

Like anything premature it’s, well … embarrassing. Whenever you set up strong anticipation, let it linger,...

posted on: Jun 1, 2010 | author: Karel Segers

The first step is asking this very question: how detailed should it be? Next you decide what is important for the...

posted on: May 26, 2010 | author: Karel Segers

Give your characters something to do. Always. Long dialogue without action essentially means you are filming talking...

posted on: May 18, 2010 | author: Karel Segers

In newbie screenplays I often read “POV [Character Name]“. This is almost always unnecessary. BTW, Any...

posted on: May 4, 2010 | author: Karel Segers

‘Unfilmable’ has two distinctly different meanings for screenwriters. On the one side...

posted on: Apr 28, 2010 | author: Karel Segers

If I read the line ‘she smiled at him lovingly’ one more time, I swear I will kill the writer. Uncountable...

posted on: Mar 16, 2010 | author: Karel Segers

When I re-watched the pilot episodes of LOST, it struck me how late the main characters’ names are...

posted on: Mar 9, 2010 | author: Karel Segers