bonathan-blog-deactivated201912: How To Make A Horror Film Link is the 2 minute Big Potato instructional video: How to Make A Horror Film in 5 Easy Steps. Once more for luck! There.
Read moreYOUR DAMN PASSIVE PROTAG
Your active protag needs three things: a goal, a plan and a flaw. The goal: win the prize, save the planet, find the killer. How will he get there? He will drive the bus there. The plan is the bus. His flaw is that he is the world’s worst bus driver. A passive protag gets on…
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Idiot plot is a term that means your conflicts depend on your characters neglecting to ask each other simple, obvious questions that would clear everything up immediately. At the moment in your plot when it becomes statistically inevitable that someone would bring up this issue, make it work for you instead of sweeping it under…
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This is one of the most wonderful meta moments in the history of film. A good obstacle has its own stake in the proceedings, a purpose to fulfill beyond frustrating the protag.
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The Scoggins Report: September 2013 Spec Market Scorecard – Script Magazine
The Scoggins Report: September 2013 Spec Market Scorecard – Script Magazine Hard data about what the spec market is buying and who they are. Morning!
Read moreMore on Dan Harmon’s “Story Circle” and my theory it is a cosine wave
chrisdwoo: I’ve discussed before how Dan Harmon (creator of Community, co-writer for Monster House) has distilled the Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth into a very basic tool for describing the arcs of a story. Harmon prefers to see his story structure as a circle, whereas I believe that it is in fact a Cosine Wave. Since I’ve posted…
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INT. GROCERY STORE – DAY Annerocious reaches into the bin for an everything bagel. Her interior dialogue begins. ME: What’s the Muslim equivalent of bagels? ME: Bagels, duh. ME: Was that racist? ME: I have to write this down.
Read moreRESPONDING TO NOTES ON YOUR SCRIPT
PROPER: IMPROPER:
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