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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Posted on May 14, 2011 in General Screenwriting, Interviews | No Comments
John August sits down to talk screenwriting, directing and making it in Hollywood.
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Posted on May 12, 2011 in General Screenwriting | No Comments
In 1980, Vonnegut wrote a short article for the International Paper Company titled simply, “How to Write with Style.” We thought I’d share it here.
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Posted on May 9, 2011 in Filmmaking 360, General Screenwriting | 1 Comment
John Hess explores the idea of using the audience to supply the emotion when telling a story through film.
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Posted on May 4, 2011 in Filmmaking 360, General Screenwriting | No Comments
Micro-budget filmmaking is hard. Now that we established the obvious, here are four lessons from Trevor Munday working as a kibitzer and writer for a micro-budget film.
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Posted on May 3, 2011 in General Screenwriting | No Comments
Benjamin Craig offers some thoughts on what to look for if you’ve got a mind for entering your Goth Vampire Romantic Comedy for competition consideration.
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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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