Posted on July 15, 2011 in General Screenwriting, Story | 1 Comment
It used to be that summer was the season for blockbuster movies. Now it’s a year-round phenomenon. Hollywood is in the business of selling films to a worldwide audience, which means they are always looking for a script with blockbuster potential.
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Posted on July 6, 2011 in Filmmaking 360, Internet, Story | 1 Comment
Jeff Parkin, filmmaker and Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Media Arts, Brigham Young University, discusses the power of transmedia stories in reaching wide audiences and his experiences in creating the Webby Award honored webseries, The Book of Jer3miah.
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Posted on June 30, 2011 in General Screenwriting | 2 Comments
Think waiting in line at the pharmacy waiting while the cashier does just one more price check is a waste a time? Well keep your eyes and ears peeled because these real life annoyances may be the perfect opportunity to study human nature an dialogue.
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Posted on June 29, 2011 in General Screenwriting | 1 Comment
Understanding subtext is the key to crafting great dialogue.
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Posted on June 27, 2011 in General Screenwriting, Outtakes | 4 Comments
Final Draft’s first series of its new Branded Videos section is SCRIPT COPS, a hilarious web series by Scott Rice. SCRIPT COPS is an award-winning parody warning screenwriters of the dangers involved when writing goes bad.
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Posted on June 24, 2011 in Story | 3 Comments
In this video Q&A Robert McKee describes how screenwriters should write a non-linear story.
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Posted on June 17, 2011 in General Screenwriting | No Comments
There’s a difference between over writing descriptions and gracefully creating the worlds in which your scenes occur. The difference may also be the key to making your script sizzle.
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Posted on June 16, 2011 in General Screenwriting | 1 Comment
Writing a video script for a marketing or advertising piece is harder than it looks. Years of school and college have trained you to write long complicated sentences in order to fill an arbitrary page length… now it’s time to forget all of that and communicate as clearly as you can.
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Posted on June 15, 2011 in General Screenwriting, Story | 1 Comment
Instead of inhibiting you limitations can inspire you. In this video Robert McKee discussed why the setting of your film is so important.
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Posted on June 14, 2011 in General Screenwriting, Structure | No Comments
It is a common saying that the first ten pages of your feature length screenplay are the most important. Here are 5 major rules you should observe to make your first ten as gripping as possible.
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Posted on June 13, 2011 in General Screenwriting | No Comments
The creators of Airplane and the two jive talking actors discuss the creation of the jive used in the movie.
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Posted on June 8, 2011 in General Screenwriting | 1 Comment
Robert McKee explains; “If the scene is about what the scene is about, you’re in deep shit.” Just to drive the point home “Star Wars Episode III Revenge Of The Sith” is offered up as an example of this bad screenwriting practice.
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Posted on June 7, 2011 in Story | 3 Comments
Michael Halperin, Ph. D., television writer, screenwriting instructor and former Executive Story Consultant for 20th Century Fox Television discusses his book Writing the 2nd Act.
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Posted on May 20, 2011 in General Screenwriting | No Comments
In 1976, Sidney Lumet’s Network hit the big screen and forever cemented the words, “I’m as Mad as Hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore” into the American conscious. That sentiment resonated in a nation that was born from political rebellion and still resonates to this day. Thirty five years later, the New York Times looks at the notes from Network’s screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky
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Posted on May 20, 2011 in General Screenwriting | No Comments
Writing for stage and film presents some unique challenges. Two men who’ve done both, David Rabe and Kenneth Lonergan, join WNYC’s Leonard Lopate to talk about their experience writing for the different mediums and adapting their work from one format to another.
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