:: Plot point in Act One: How big is big? :: The Hollywood “connections connections” myth. :: A day of writing, and much more. :: Mind your business: an agent’s screenwriting book. :: Strong female characters, an ode to Sarah Connor. :: When not following protocol, works.
This month, Michael Hauge and Steve Kaplan will be in Australia for two weekends of story classes. Today we continue a special guest contribution by Steve Kaplan, plus we give Melbournians the chance to win a free ticket to the event (worth $445). (continued from last week)
Brief interview with Geoffrey Fletcher about his career leading up to Precious, which won him an Academy Award for Best adapted screenplay earlier this year. My favorite quote: “A lot of the art we respond to comes from some degree of pain.” Thank you to Louise Tan
:: Scott Myers pays tribute to Mystery Man :: The Joker won’t come back :: Women in film, where are they? :: Don’t over-research, keep it interesting. :: Michael Arndt & Pixar: how they do what they do. :: 10 Time Magazine readers’ questions for George Romero. :: How
Let’s start off with a test. A Comedy Perception Test, to see if we’re perceiving comedy with 20-20 vision. Below are 7 sentences, seven word-pictures. They don’t mean anything other than what they are. There’s no back story. Read carefully. A. Man slipping on a banana peel. B.
ScriptShadow has just published the 13 Secrets to a Great Script. Would Twilight have qualified? Let’s have a look again at what that story really entails. Warning: we’re not being serious today.
Like anything premature it’s, well … embarrassing. Whenever you set up strong anticipation, let it linger, keep the audience wondering how it is going to be resolved, then push it to a climax and rather than resolving, introduce a new, bigger problem. A signature mistake of the
:: Alex Epstein revisits The Exorcist. :: Script Coverage: A Few Awful Truths. :: Why bad scripts sell. For six figures :: Do you read outside your niche? Why not? :: Drew Pears will co-write The Runaways. :: Each character must have something at stake. :: Surviving
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