The 3 Rules of Transmedia Storytelling from Transmedia Guru Jeff Gomez | Filmmakers, Film Industry, Film Festivals, Awards & Movie Reviews | Indiewire Great link for exploring how to turn your story into a transmedia one.
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TENSION
Letting tension out in the script happens when conflicts are resolved too soon. It happens in scenes with two or three lines of wrap up dialogue that should be cut. You lose momentum when you let out tension. Keep the tension rising in your script by giving your protag more problems instead of solving them….
Read moreFINISH IT. Actually finishing it is what I’m gonna put in as step one. You may laugh at this, but it’s true. I have so many friends who have written two-thirds of a screenplay, and then re-written it for about three years. Finishing a screenplay is first of all truly difficult, and secondly really liberating….
Read moreIS IT A SCRIPT AT ALL?
It might be a novel or a short story or a painting or a collage or a poem. You might have a script idea if: It’s about a person who needs to accomplish something difficult. The person has a flaw that gets in the way. Strong forces oppose them. The story and its themes are…
Read moreInfographics of the Day: Flow Charts For Making Horror or Action Movies | Co.Design | business design
Infographics of the Day: Flow Charts For Making Horror or Action Movies | Co.Design | business design
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When you get a lot of unencouraging feedback, you have written a script that doesn’t work yet, like every single other person who has ever tried to write one. Is it a script? Then it’s a mess. It is packed with blind spots and missed opportunities that you will never know about until someone else…
Read morePHONETIC DIALECT IS A PAIN IN THE ASS TO READ
Great dialect adds a lot to your script, unless you spell it the way it sounds, in which case it’s very annoying because it stops being reading and turns into breaking code. Go easy on the apostrophes, darlin’. I’s fixin’ ta gin y’all a whuppin’ iff’n ya don’t.
Read moreYOUR THIRD ACT REFUSING TO PAY OFF THE SETUP
[Screenwriters] are in the business of generating emotion. That’s why people go to the cinema. They want to be frightened; they want to be thrilled; they want to be filled with wonder; they want to laugh; they want to cry. William Nicholson (BAFTA & BFI Screenwriters’ Lecture Series) Cannot be overstated.
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