jenbeewrites: Saw this on Twitter and had to share here. This advice is golden and something one should think about before they write. Another thing I don’t just make up for my own amusement. Interesting women strengthen your script and appeal to readers.
Read morebrokenprojector-episode66 brokenprojector: Let’s say you desperately want to make a feature film, but you don’t have any money to do it. Can you scrape together a few thousand? Good, because writer/director Joshua Caldwell and producer Travis Oberlander join us this week to explain how they made Layover for only $6,000. Beyond making a movie for a few months’ rent, Geoff and…
Read morecthonical: gallifrey-feels: Fanfic authors: READ THE WHOLE FUCKING PAGE THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND VALUABLE LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN AS A WRITER. I SAY THIS AS A READER AND A PROFESSIONAL GENRE EDITOR. I don’t just make this stuff up for my own amusement.
Read more5. DISCIPLINE: – Discipline might well be a measure of the extent to which a film sticks to the rules it has established. Do all the techniques service the theme? Are the performance style, cinematography, editing, design, and music united behind a common voice, one that was selected via the content? Is the narrative told…
Read morethisistheverge: Hey, remember that time Google accidentally made Skynet? Meet your new robot overlords
Read moreNotes from a Screenreader: Right Hook
nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. A spec script with a real hook jumps right out of the pile. It’s the difference between an indestructible cyborg from the future relentlessly attempting to murder Sarah Connor and Sarah Connor, for instance, getting a message from the future that she should start taking self-defense classes while…
Read moreWouldn’t a small indie benefit far more greatly from a theatrical release that builds over time, without a VOD option, as opposed to a giant wide-release product? Zach Wigon This week’s Racking Focus explores what Snowpiercer might mean for the VOD evolution. (via tribecafilm)
Read morethescriptlab: Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. -Hannah Arendt
Read moreThis bleak future is the direction the industry is pointed in, but even if it arrives it will not last. Once movies can no longer be defined by technology, you unmask powerful fundamentals—the timelessness, the otherworldliness, the shared experience of these narratives. Christopher Nolan The Oscar nominated filmmaker shares his thoughts on the future of…
Read moreThere are only two important elements to a great novel. The first is an interesting character. A character that you thoroughly know and feel will go a long way toward attracting a readership. The second element is an interesting problem. Walter Dean Myers, with advice for a young writer. (via lettersandlight) Screenplays, too.
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