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 | 28 August, 2014 | In Our Opinion, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution, Screenwriting
I’m a real stickler for respect and courtesy. To me it costs nothing to treat others with respect and decency – at least up until the point they demonstrate that they don’t deserve it – but it’s becoming increasingly obvious to me that the idea of respect is somewhat...
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...
