fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors: HAMBURG: How do you feel about those projects that got shelved? It must be hard to be out there pushing one and then suddenly find it’s on hold. BIGELOW: The first few times it happens, you are emotionally devastated. Then you realize it’s all a big waiting game. It’s an inevitable process, and you…
Read morewriterlyn: If there’s anything I’ve learned from this blog, it’s that people will go to super far distances to say that you shouldn’t be encouraged by anything. Fuck that noise. Be encouraged by everything.
Read moreThe really cool scene that has to be cut
itsonlythefirstdraft:
Read moreStory is Transformation
Here’s a quick rule of thumb for your protag. Move as far as you can between the before and the after. Start like this. And use the story to get to this. Transformation is what stories are about. The bigger the better. It’s easy to make the transformation dramatic when the distance between before and…
Read moredreamyfilms: bless
Read moreDo you have any advice for someone who might be interested in making short films later on in life? Like how did you start out with directing/writing and how did you learn so much about equipment and things like that?
yulinkuang: Do the thing, start the thing, make the thing. I started because I had previously handed off all my projects to other people to direct and I was tired of the waiting – but I wasn’t confident that I could do anything other than write, I wasn’t sure I even wanted to do anything…
Read morePrompt 110
prompt-dealer: “The first kill is always the hardest. It’ll get easier. You’ll get used to it.” “What if I don’t want to get used to it?” “You’ll get used to it.”
Read moreInjury Analysis: How to Train Your Dragon
scriptmedic: This post is an excerpt from Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction. It’s one of nine injury analyses that appear in the book, but this one is near and dear to my heart, especially because you all helped pick it. I asked a couple of months ago for injuries to analyze in…
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