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Read moreTONE SHIFT
annerocious: Radical tone shift is disorienting. If you find your voice halfway through, dedicate a rewrite to making the first half tonally complementary.
Read moreI would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long. Meryl Streep pulling weeds (via cyberqueer) [x] (via belligerently)
Read moreaustralian-government: I hate when people ask questions during movies like do you not understand that the movie purposly doesn’t tell you things in order to build suspense
Read moreHOW TO CONFLICT
annerocious: Never AND. Always OR. Real dramatic conflict gives the protag a choice. This OR That. Success OR Failure. Save the mother OR the child. Capitulate to the antagonist OR get shot. Conflict that has a lot of options is not real conflict. The protagonist is free to save the mother AND the child only…
Read moreTO MAKE MORE DIMENSIONAL FEMALE CHARACTERS…
thisoldbitch: annerocious: You have to get past thinking of them in terms of who would be willing to have sex with them. Go out in the street and look at ALL the women. Every single one of them has compelling dramatic conflict in their lives. Imagine that. To quote myself: You can’t just slap a…
Read moreYET ANOTHER FEMALE CHARACTER WHO IS 25 AND HOT AS HELL BUT IN A GIRL NEXT DOOR WAY WHO LOOKS PERFECT WITHOUT MAKEUP IN JEANS AND AN OLD TEE
annerocious: Just the part every single actress has been praying for.
Read moreCONFLICT: CATS EDITION
annerocious: LOW CONFLICT BETTER CONFLICT ACTUAL CONFLICT
Read moreNotes from a Screenreader: Pitch Me
nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. Ninety seconds is more than enough time to pitch a well-defined story. The elements that make a story interesting and easy to envision, when stripped of less important trappings, can fit on an index card. Nowhere was this more apparent than at the Austin Film Festival Pitch Finale…
Read moreauteurstearoom: “[Trying to direct and write involves] rejection after rejection after rejection and it is scary. It can take a year to write something and some people will think it is rubbish and it can be hideously embarrassing to show it to anybody but you have to deal with all these things. You have to…
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