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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Comedies to safely spec this year. Dramas to safely spec this year. with thanks to lifeascaty
Read moreNotes from a Screenreader: Unpackable Hooks
Notes 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…
Read morelifeascaty: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Director: Michel Gondry Cinematographer: Ellen Kuras Screenwriter: Charlie Kaufman The screenplay can be found here. The epitome of withholding information to create mystery in your story, told with lots of original, stunning imagery. Aim high!
Read moreTHINGS THAT AREN’T CORRECT
So we’ve established here that there are a lot of things you can do in your script that make it go thunk when it should tinkle like a silver bell. lifeascaty has been assembling lists of good ones, you can peruse her blog for collections of produced scripts by genre and artist to find your…
Read moreTell me something new, something I don’t know or have never imagined. Tell me something I haven’t heard ten versions of before from ten different sources. Tell me something that makes me go OH! in the most innocent and amazed part of my soul. It can be good or bad, but it must stop all…
Read moreOn the metamorphosis of a douchebag
On the metamorphosis of a douchebag dearcoquette: I used to play it off as being a hopeless romantic. I am actually calculating, manipulative, and emotionally stunted. I use my charisma to get what I want. How do I tell the girl I’m seeing that I’m basically Patrick Bateman? You’re not Patrick Bateman. Patrick Bateman… How…
Read moreCracking your story.
Read moreinvoluntaryadult: Hey guys! I REALLY need your help! So, I posted a few months ago that a script of mine placed in the top 20 of Steeltown’s annual Film Factory screenwriting competition. While the top 3 scripts went on to compete for a $30,000 prize, the other 17 scripts were put into a “Community Showcase”….
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