Posted on April 26, 2011 in General Screenwriting, Screenplay Format | No Comments
Break out of the box of traditional screenwriting assumptions! In this excerpt from Writing the TV Drama Series: Second Edition, Pamela Douglas gives you some new rules for writing television that have changed significantly in just the past couple of years.
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Posted on April 25, 2011 in General Screenwriting | 1 Comment
From their invention in 1867 through much of the 20th century, typewriters were indispensable tools for many authors and businessmen. By the end of the 1980s, however, word processors and personal computers largely displaced typewriters in the settings where they previously had been ubiquitous in the western world. Although typewriters remain in use in some areas of the world, the world’s last typewriter factory—Godrej and Boyce—closed in April 2011 in Mumbai.
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Posted on April 21, 2011 in General Screenwriting, Selling Your Script | No Comments
Nina Rosenblum, acclaimed documentary film director, guides you through the basics of how to make a documentary film treatment.
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Posted on April 18, 2011 in General Screenwriting, Interviews | No Comments
Salman Rushdie, Emory University Distinguished Writer in Residence, and Emory film studies professor Matthew Bernstein engage in a lively Creativity Conversation about film and literature at Emory University on March 19, 2009.
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Posted on April 15, 2011 in General Screenwriting | 1 Comment
The Hollywood Reporter has a round-table discussion with the screenwriters of summers biggest films. They discuss everything from dealing with difficult directors, competing against each other, “insane” product placement and selling out.
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Posted on April 5, 2011 in General Screenwriting | 1 Comment
Julian Friedmann, agent and editor of ScriptWriter magazine, discusses the effectiveness of screenwriting courses.
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Posted on April 4, 2011 in General Screenwriting | No Comments
In this 4 minute and 37 second video the famed writer Kurt Vonnegut sketches three dramatic prototypes into simple shapes of stories that any computer can understand.
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Posted on March 28, 2011 in Screenplay Format, Storyboarding | 1 Comment
This is a live demo of the Celtx media pre-production software. Presented in New York in Feb. 2011 by filmmaker/educator Mike Jones.
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Posted on March 22, 2011 in General Screenwriting, Interviews | 1 Comment
Peter & Bobby Farrelly (“Dumb & Dumber,” “There’s Something About Mary,” “Kingpin,” “The Three Stooges”) and co-writers Pete Jones & Kevin Barnett discuss why “Hall Pass” was the toughest script they’ve ever written and how they walk the fine line between offensive and hillarious.
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Posted on March 21, 2011 in General Screenwriting, Interviews | 1 Comment
This is Charlie Kaufman’s master class at Gothenburg International Film Festival. Charlie discusses his films and other wide ranging screenwriting topics during this 72 minute video interview.
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Posted on March 21, 2011 in General Screenwriting | No Comments
This three part video series was produced by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) for their awards ceremony. In these video interviews screenwriters comment on their writing process, producer notes and what they’d be doing if they were not a writer.
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Posted on March 20, 2011 in General Screenwriting | 3 Comments
In this WGA.org video, legendary Apocalypse Now writer John Milius tells Written By magazine editor Richard Stayton what inspired him to adapt the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness.
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Posted on March 8, 2011 in General Screenwriting | 13 Comments
openSpace is University College Falmouth’s platform for making teaching materials free to learners all over the world through Creative Commons. UCF has made available free lecture notes, assigments, and audio videos.
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Posted on February 17, 2011 in General Screenwriting, Story | 3 Comments
This memo to the writers of The Unit, David Mamet (the show’s executive producer) provides a short but master class in writing for television. Only Mamet can give a writing memo in all-caps and get away with it.
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Posted on February 8, 2011 in General Screenwriting, Selling Your Script | No Comments
Screenwriter Richard Walter shares business and film strategies, news, and success stories. His students have written more than 10 projects for Steven Spielberg, plus blockbusters and indie productions, including Milk and Sideways. A storytelling guru, movie industry expert and chair of UCLA’s graduate program in screenwriting, Walter knows everyone in the business -– and all the side businesses.
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