I went to a screening of The Fifth Estate. They took my phone so I couldn’t leak it.
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BACKSTORY
There is a lot of backstory that doesn’t belong in your script. It feels important to put on the page, to explain things and illuminate characters, but it’s more interesting to the reader NOT to know everything, to guess and speculate and draw our own conclusions. Bonus points if we get it wrong and that’s…
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mrs-orange: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost & Edgar Wright for British GQ (x) Some heroes of mine.
Read moreDON’T DIRECT ON THE PAGE, THERE ARE DIRECTORS FOR THAT
image of Kathryn Bigelow via GQ Even if you avoid commanding the camera (“Pan across Javert’s shattered visage”), you still might be directing in your writing in ways you don’t even notice. Which you shouldn’t do. Kathryn Bigelow has her own ideas. If you’re a filmmaker, scroll right on by. You write your script however you…
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Hello and first off thank you for your tumblr it’s humorous and informative, and as a novice writer sometimes scary. I was wondering if you had any solid longline advice, like “You want to write a logline, then you need this…” I feel that as important as they are, most screenwriting books kind of glaze over loglines. Thank you & thanks for the awesome Tumblr.
http://annerocious.tumblr.com/post/61042292372/loglines-are-easy Thank you so much! That’s wonderful to hear. This is a link to my post on loglines. Hope it helps, and thanks for the message and the kind words. 🙂
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YOU’RE GOOD: TIGHTEN IT UP:
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