by Jurgen Wolff | 8 July, 2019 | Screenwriting
Maybe you’ve heard the saying that a script is just a blueprint. If so, forget it! The first goal of your script is to be a great reading experience. Later there will be a production script annotated by the director and others involved in planning the actual...
by Elliot Grove | 18 November, 2018 | Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Producing, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution, Screenwriting
We have rules and we have tools. Writers use story hacks to break the rules. Let me explain: Do we not have rule upon rule? We’ve rules of our buildings, our cities, our nations, our cultures and religions. Are we not taught from the time we can walk that rules are...
by Sylvie Dumont | 26 October, 2018 | Book Review, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Screenwriting
BOOK REVIEW – The Hollywood Standard (2nd Edition) by Christopher Riley You have a story. It’s compelling. It’s beautiful. It means something. Maybe you wrote it overnight, in a frenzied burst of creativity. Maybe it came to you in a dream. Now, all you need to...
by Marta de Nitto Personé | 13 August, 2018 | Directing, Film History, Screenwriting
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” It was Thomas Mann to say that, but every good writer knows exactly what he means. A writer’s aim is to create from scratch a parallel world (that should be at least as interesting...
by Ellen Almanza | 6 July, 2018 | In Our Opinion
As Robin Williams said, “Improv. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but when it does, it’s like open-field running.” To all the actors and actresses, you know those moments when you spontaneously go off script? Well things do not always go as planned on movie...
