annerocious: This blog is not an all-purpose screenwriting blog. It is specifically for getting your spec script through the first tiers of vetting readers in competitions. Anyone with a script and an entry fee is up for the same consideration as you are in the first round. You can game this situation for better results…
Read morejudonerd: Mixed feels about #valentinesday? Us too. We’re making a film about lovesickness. Go to www.limerencefilm.com to see more! It’s a staff pick at kickstarter, it’s gorgeous, and I helped! Take a look.
Read moreannerocious: This is the kind of impact you can have when you are inventive about what you can communicate without using dialogue that explains directly to the reader.
Read moreTO MAKE MORE DIMENSIONAL FEMALE CHARACTERS…
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.
Read moretheavc: This Twitter account is ripping the way women are introduced in film scripts Film producer Ross Putman has noticed some cringeworthy commonalities in the way women are introduced in the scripts that cross his desk. Namely, that these women are all described as being hot, and the description usually includes what they are (or…
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Some oldies but goodies coming up.
Read moreHOW TO STOP OVERWRITING YOUR DIALOGUE
annerocious: It’s simple. We’re watching it. Develop your characters in such a way that even someone who has never seen True Blood can grasp what they are looking at here. If this doesn’t make sense, get out your notebook and write down everything you can tell about these two people and their relationship and their…
Read moreDefinition for Your Hook
annerocious: Your hook is how your script’s central conflict is played out in action. A strong hook suggests the story and engages the reader’s imagination immediately. Most spec scripts have a very weak hook: Two friends go on a road trip to Vegas for Spring Break after one of them has a bad break up. …
Read morebogleech: Don’t feel bad if you’re sensitive to negative feedback because apparently after one particular bad review Hans Christian Andersen was found just sobbing while lying face down in the dirt
Read moreconsulting-film-major: nightingale-sings: did-you-kno: The National Academy of Sciences provides a free ‘science hotline’ for filmmakers in order to encourage more scientifically accurate movies. The service is free to both professional and amateur films, as well as TV and video game projects. Most of the Avengers films have used it, as well as Thor, TRON: Legacy,…
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