Future of Storytelling Course | Education. Online. FREE, STARTS TOMORROW, INCLUDES TRANSMEDIA/GAMES
Future of Storytelling Course | Education. Online. FREE, STARTS TOMORROW, INCLUDES TRANSMEDIA/GAMES Learning Outcomes Our MOOC will help you answer the following questions: 1. How do fictional stories work? Which structures and mechanics are used? 2. How do new technologies influence the ways stories are told and perceived – and which new media formats have…
Read moreDr. Suess may have hated flashbacks, but Gabriel García Márquez loved them, and that guy won the Nobel Prize. ;)
Ha! Magical Realism makes anything possible.
Read moreWriting simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don’t always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive…. Virtually…
Read moreNew York Women in Film & Television: Notes from a Screenreader
New York Women in Film & Television: Notes from a Screenreader nywift: photo via Go Into the Story Real conflict is critical to getting your script past the first round of readers in a competition. All competition specs have an idea and an intent. Few of them deliver an emotional experience of that intent because…
Read moreWITCHES BURNING IN SALEM, DEFIBRILLATORS ON FLATLINING PATIENTS, EMBASSIES BEING FOREIGN SOIL, ANYTHING ABOUT HACKING OR CLONES OR VACCINES OR SOMEONE ELSE’S RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. OR THE LAWS OF PHYSICS.
Watching movies doesn’t count!
Read moreLITERALLY NO ONE CARES ABOUT NICE
Which you know if you’ve ever tried to make someone like you by being nice. You can make a story out of: A nice person diving into the nasty pool A nasty person doing laps in the nasty pool A nasty person climbing out of the nasty pool for a redeeming purpose But there is…
Read moreTweet tip: 10 female filmmakers to follow on Twitter, list courtesy of @Indiewire http://t.co/blFozu9cgZ — Women in Film & TV (@WFTV_UK) October 22, 2013
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