boojum.as.arizona.edu Spec scripts have this tendency to fall back on dramatic near misses. Like, if Jane found out Pedro cheated, the wedding would be off, but thank goodness that didn’t happen fifteen different times, and here comes the bride. Actually, no. Jane finds out. Impact. Now Jane and Pedro have a megaton of ejecta material…
Read moreUnderwear – Mack Weldon
Underwear – Mack Weldon In love with this guy modeling underwear. The glasses are the best.
Read moreThe script for Inside Llewyn Davis was so lean. It was weird. There were a lot of ellipses. There would be like, one line, and then some dots, then “act here” in parentheses. Oscar Isaac and T Bone Burnett at the Inside Llewyn Davis screening at Austin Film Festival Somehow…that’s exactly how I imagined it…
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Notes from a Screenreader nywift: photo via Go Into the Story Lie to me. Most spec scripts have an importance of being earnest problem. They tell the reader the truth, all of it, all the time. All the backstory, all the exposition, all of what everyone is doing and precisely why, before it even happens….
Read moreFilms are not plot, they are characters and moments. Emeric Pressburger (via adrianswateringcan) There is no easier way to say it than this. Plots are a product of characters wanting things there is no easy way to get.
Read moreA great example of subtext plus analysis and tips on writing it http://t.co/EUmAwW5ppq #screenwriting #writing — Scott Myers (@GoIntoTheStory) November 5, 2013
Read moreTrust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. – Esther Freud — Women Writers (@WomenWriters) November 2, 2013
Read moreTONE SHIFT
Theme is genetic. It you took a scene out and planted it, it should grow into the shape of the whole movie. John August
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