by Mark Rogers | 7 December, 2016 | Filmmaking, Screenwriting
A treatment can be a useful document to have, whether you’re looking to use it as a roadmap of your story before writing or as a way to build interest in a spec script. Unfortunately there’s rarely any specific agreement on how to lay out a treatment for industry...
by Mark Rogers | 29 July, 2015 | Filmmaking, In Our Opinion, Screenwriting
It’s a simple question really. What value do you place on your skills as a screenwriter? This question arose for me recently when I was asked about helping an aspiring writer with a script. The submitted draft was extremely poor. Scene headers were missing, the...
by Mark Rogers | 30 August, 2014 | In Our Opinion
What’s your favourite movie? If you could only watch x-number of movies for the rest of your life what would they be? I was posed this kind of question recently by Stage32 in the form of their Desert Island Discs heading. My first step was to take a look at the few...
by Mark Rogers | 17 August, 2014 | Directing, In Our Opinion
Adaptations are commonplace in today’s movie industry. Whether it’s taken from a book, a video game, a park ride or a bar of chocolate the importance of having an existing property to launch from has become so significant to Hollywood that it’s becoming increasingly...
by Mark Rogers | 17 August, 2014 | Directing, In Our Opinion
The creative industries are ripe with talent and it’s becoming frequently common place for many of those talents to bring their skills to more than their own traditional stomping grounds. Here are just seven members of the music industry who have flexed their muscles...
