Posted on March 9, 2012 in General Screenwriting | No Comments
Description – or the action part of a script – can be difficult to write. Here are a few tips and mistakes to avoid to keep your reader glued to the script.
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Posted on March 6, 2012 in General Screenwriting | No Comments
Ryan E. Hoffman shares some ideas on how to write for online comedy and how to find the right collaborators.
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Posted on March 2, 2012 in General Screenwriting, Story | No Comments
The Script Lab takes a look at Five Iconic Movies (Edward Scissorhands, Cool Hand Luke, The Big Lebowski, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and 500 Days of Summer) and how they cover the five essential elements in the first 10 pages for an attention grabbing script.
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Posted on February 27, 2012 in Screenplay Format, Storyboarding | 1 Comment
The new Celtx ecosystem is designed to let you create and write anywhere. This short walkthrough gives a high-level overview of some of the benefits for creators upon creating a free account at celtx.com.
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Posted on February 24, 2012 in General Screenwriting | No Comments
“Show it, don’t say it” is a good mantra to follow. But sometimes, for economic or timing sake, you have to get the audience up to speed and the only way to do that is to just have a character say it. That’s called exposition and it can be bad filmmaking if its overused. Here are five techniques to deliver exposition while making it not look like exposition.
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Posted on February 18, 2012 in Legal & Copyright | 1 Comment
Our system of law doesn’t acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. Instead, ideas are regarded as property, as unique and original lots with distinct boundaries. But ideas aren’t so tidy. They’re layered, they’re interwoven, they’re tangled. And when the system conflicts with the reality… the system starts to fail.
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Posted on February 17, 2012 in General Screenwriting | No Comments
Found footage films give the viewer the impression that they are watching 1st hand footage of an event happening. This style has been implemented in films like “Blair Witch Project”, “Cloverfield”, and “Paranormal Activity”. But even this style of gonzo storytelling has it’s own emerging set of rules:
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Posted on February 15, 2012 in General Screenwriting, Selling Your Script | No Comments
Before he got the sweat heart deal from FX for his show “Louie” (where they gave him 200K to make whatever he wanted), Louis CK was a working writer in the TV netwok’s pilot season machinery. In a UseNET rant, Louis CK regales his experiences trying to get a pilot launched.
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Posted on February 15, 2012 in Story | No Comments
Ideas are the seeds of great project. But sometimes you find yourself unable to pluck them from the create-o-sphere. Adam Campbell uncovers weird places where those little nuggets may lie dormant.
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Posted on January 25, 2012 in General Screenwriting | 2 Comments
In this tongue-in-cheek guide, “Pappy Crappy” outlines some easy steps to ensure that no one ever reads your script.
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Posted on January 23, 2012 in Directing, Filmmaking 360, General Screenwriting, Interviews | No Comments
Ariston Anderson interviews Francis Ford Coppola (“The Godfather”, “Apocalypse Now”) on how to bridge the gap between distribution and commerce, screenwriting, and directing great actors.
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Posted on January 19, 2012 in Story, Structure | No Comments
James Strzelinski explores what he calls the “Mirror Moment” – the turning point of a character arc which has the lead metaphorically (or literally) looking in the mirror and reevaluating everything.
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Posted on January 18, 2012 in Featured, Internet, Legal & Copyright | 6 Comments
Now that Occupy Wall Street is dead the interwebs are abuzz with a new protest meme denouncing SOPA. This should not be confused with their decades long protest against soap.
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Posted on January 12, 2012 in General Screenwriting | No Comments
Patrick Kirkland pens this take down about writer’s block, the false sense of inability that is only inside your head. Finish reading the article, and go write already.
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Posted on January 11, 2012 in Filmmaking 360, General Screenwriting | No Comments
Charlie Kaufman, the writer behind “Being John Malkovich” and “Adaptation”, gives his first ever lecture on screenwriting for the BAFTA Guru Series
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