nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. Many a spec script hits page 20 at a dead run, then pulls a hamstring and limps all the way through the second act while the writer chips away at what the story is actually about. It’s painfully slow to read. All of that should be resolved in…
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Read morenataliedomrer: Men still have trouble recognizing that a woman can be complex, can have ambition, good looks, sexuality, erudition and common sense. A woman can have all those facets, and yet men, in literature and in drama, seem to need to simplify women, to polarize us as either the whore or the angel. – Natalie Dormer
Read morebeyondtheduckpond: Four Lessons Film Editing Taught Me About Screenwriting storyboardresources: Lesson 1: Build In More Images and Actions The page is somewhat forgiving of lengthier dialogue blocks but the editing suite sure is not. There’s probably no better way to see how your dialogue plays than to shoot it and edit it. Most likely, the…
Read moreThere’s a film you write, there’s a film you shoot, and there’s a film that you cut – and they’re all different. Paul Greengrass (filmmaker)
Read moreThe difference between having a good idea for a film and a finished film that you like is the same as seeing a pretty girl at a party and being there when your wife delivers the third baby. Richard Curtis (BAFTA/BFI Screenwriter Lecture)
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