Spec scripts are talky. They just are. But film tells stories with pictures. Help yourself. As you go through the day, observe and collect stories that tell themselves without words. A girl texts as her friend watches her with secret longing. Do you know how much better that is than a conversation between Friend and another…
Read moreWhen I began to [screen]write, it seemed to me I would never learn how. It seemed two or three years before I had any confidence in myself. The problem of plot, as with most young writers, troubled me greatly before I got used to it … Dalton Trumbo (Quoted in ‘Trumbo’, a biography by Bruce Cook)
Read moreshittyrigs: “Demo day on Good Bones season 2. Sometimes you have to improvise ..” Submitted by Kees Riphagen
Read moreBluestocking Shirts are Here!
The Bluestocking Film Festival starts July 14 in Portland, Maine. Celebrating the Complex Female Protagonist. The fest.
Read moreDON’T DIRECT ON THE PAGE, THERE ARE DIRECTORS FOR THAT
annerocious: image of Kathryn Bigelow via GQ Even if you avoid commanding the camera (“Pan across Javert’s shattered visage”), you still might be directing in your writing in ways you don’t even notice. Which you shouldn’t do. Kathryn Bigelow has her own ideas. If you’re a filmmaker, scroll right on by. You write your script however…
Read moreScenes I Have Had Enough Of
Getting the kids out the door in the morning on pg 1 Arbitrarily mean boss fires protag on pg 3 Ambitious girlfriend dumps protag on pg 4 Protag spills coffee in lap while driving on pg 5 Super: Twenty Years Later on pg 9 The protag decides to win a contest on page 10 Slutty…
Read moreWhat interests me as a novelist is not the malevolence of man… but his looniness. Walker Percy, The Art of Fiction No. 97 (via theparisreview)
Read moreDon’t Take That Tone With Me
What is tone and what are the rules? Succinctly, don’t mess tone up because your script will have the weird vertigo feeling that comes from moral dissonance. Tone is a simple emotional language you’re already familiar with, unless you’re a psychopath. Or a replicant. To keep a consistent tone, think “How will this action be…
Read moreowlmylove: just-shower-thoughts: Reading is just staring at a dead piece of wood for hours and hallucinating please delete this
Read moreWith a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and…
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