nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. You have a blind date. Nothing to go on, just a name. You smile, you shake hands, and then without preamble, your date sits down and launches into a monologue of therapy-grade personal disclosure. They tell you what the weather was like and what they were wearing during…
Read moreTerry’s Picks: OITNB, No Country for Young Women & Film Fatales
nywift: Graph via No Country for Young Women Looking Forward: to the June 6th release of Orange is the New Black with NYWIFT member Alysia Reiner appearing again as Assistant Warden Natalie “Fig” Figueroa. Suggesting: that you check out this excellent post on No Country for Young Women by Elena Rossini on a new technique she used to measure gender bias. Applauding: the…
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Read more“Check Yes or No” Won the Grant!
involuntaryadult: I literally just finished grabbing coffee with our producer when I checked my email and saw the news. This. is. awesome! I just want to send an enormous THANK YOU to everyone who voted, and boosted the link and encouraged others to vote too. This is just such a fantastic help toward our budget….
Read moreNotes from a Screenreader: Unpackable Hooks
nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. Writer and director Timothy Cooper, an enthusiastically pragmatic teacher of professional screenwriting and past WIFTI Summit panelist, talks about the value of unpackable story concepts, which he defines as “rife with potential to anyone who hears it.” Perfect example: Inception. A team illegally breaks into a sleeper’s dreams…
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Read morelearning2swim: I think relationships in general are over romanticized like at the end of the day I’m pretty sure a good relationship is just two people who know how to hang out and talk to each other not whether or not they can right all your wrongs or paint a picture of a thousand suns…
Read moreNotes from a Screenreader: The Same but What Now?
nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. “The same but different” is the magic formula for a winning script. Does it mean anything or is it double speak for “I know it when I see it?” Patterns not formulas: Create familiar emotional patterns in new situations. The same is a recognizable tone with a recognizable build…
Read morePRO TIPS: THE REAL TIMOTHY COOPER
Timothy Cooper is one of the good guys, a writer/director who loves writers and stories and applying one to the other until a great screenplay pops out. Once a philosophy student at Yale, he went on to the Upright Citizen’s Brigade and developed his web series Concierge there while waiting for his feature script, Away…
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