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		<title>Best o/t Web 29 Jan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every week I make an attempt to plough through 1,000+ headlines of blogs and entertainment web sites. What I think could be interesting or useful to you, I tweet to @ozzywood. Out of those, @Miss_Little_Jay selects the best for you here, every Sunday. Story &#38; Structure :: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Judges &#8211; Circalit Loglines (5)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesmichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this section we are publishing the loglines from the participants of the Circalit / Story Department &#8220;First Draft Script Contest&#8221;. Our judges have reviewed the loglines and give you their considered feedback. It may help you craft a powerful logline. by The Judges Dog Eat Dog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: The Battle of Long Tan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Segers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Australia Day and I have been working on my favorite project for the moment: the feature screenplay for LONG TAN, the feature based on the eponymous Vietnam battle from 1966. For the occasion I wanted to share something special with you. This week Sam Worthington mentioned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best o/t Web &#8211; 22 Jan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Segers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Story &#38; Structure :: So what is a Sequence, really? :: Romantic Comedy: Rethinking the Happy Ending :: the &#8220;mirror moment&#8221; as the key to understanding story arc. :: &#8216;The Avengers&#8217; Mostly from Steve Rogers&#8217; Perspective. Script Perfection :: You want on-the-nose dialogue? Watch a soap opera. :: ScriptShadow review Good Kids [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story Plan (3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Gray</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[almodovar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outside of the system, there is very little room for any writing career in China. But in the US or even the less Bible thumping worlds of Europe, the big bucks go to the conformists, the purveyors of nothing in-particular, while the more nuanced, the critical, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Judges &#8211; Circalit Loglines (4)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesmichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this section we are publishing the loglines from the participants of the Circalit / Story Department &#8220;First Draft Script Contest&#8221;. Our judges have reviewed the loglines and give you their considered feedback. It may help you craft a powerful logline. by The Judges India Ink The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Steven Derosa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Segers</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hitchcock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plausibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plotting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[screenwriting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have tried financing a genre film or get development funding for your script in Australia over the past ten years, chances are at some point you were rejected by the gatekeepers on the basis of plausibility. Some people simply don&#8217;t understand how film works. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story Plan (1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Gray</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hero's journey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hong kong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joseph campbell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mission impossible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shakespeare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s the story? That’s the first thing anyone asks a writer and it is, unquestionably, seen as the province that the screenwriter rules over in the film industry. Except the story you should be working on is perhaps not the obvious one. by Lawrence Gray Most big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Judges &#8211; Circalit Loglines (3)</title>
		<link>http://thestorydepartment.com/the-judges-circalit-loglines-3/</link>
		<comments>http://thestorydepartment.com/the-judges-circalit-loglines-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesmichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this section we are publishing the loglines from the participants of the Circalit / Story Department &#8220;First Draft Script Contest&#8221;. Our judges have reviewed the loglines and give you their considered feedback. It may help you craft a powerful logline. by The Judges The Hitman From [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Maurice Sendak</title>
		<link>http://thestorydepartment.com/video-maurice-sendak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Segers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maurice Sendak is the man behind the story and illustrations of Where The Wild Things Are. The 2009 movie version may not have achieved much but the original book is a timeless classic. Here he speaks about his artistic vision. If you liked this, check out more [...]]]></description>
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