Is Your Story Movie Worthy? annerocious: “…it it worthwhile understanding why certain concepts make good movies.”
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tumblr not been forged into a weapon large enough to smash Ticketmaster? Why doesn’t anyone even talk about how Ticketmaster is pure evil? It spits in the face of reason that Ticketmaster still exists.
Read morefuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors: Gabrielle Demeestere’s 10 Tips For Beginner Filmmakers 1. Make a lookbook with all of the visual references and photographs that inspire you. It will allow everyone on the crew to be on the same page about how the movie should look and feel. This is an awesome one that Xavier Dolan made for one…
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Read morechriscaleo: SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 1991 #amwriting #tvwriting #screenwriting #filmmaking #nycgratitude #painting #FREECALEO (at New York, New York) This is a visual way to tell story. It’s an image that replaces a static scene of characters talking about all the things this image represents. Readers LOVE this.
Read moremetaphors-and-starbursts: qonorrhea: raspberryripples: This scares me. but imagine going into a store and being like “yes i need three thousand knives” @bugaboo-darling Here is a visual explanation of subtext that is worth over $1k USD
Read moreWe are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories. Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (via wearyvoices)
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writerlyn: (Stories need to have actual conflict to be interesting.) (Not just things happening.) (Things just happening does not equal a plot.)
Read moreknitmeapony: ryl-e-coyote: i am laughing because i just started imagining a gordon ramsay-like feminist writer who, rather than helping to keep restaurants in business, goes to writers of television shows and films and chastises them for the sexism, racism, and general lack of diversity in their scripts “YOUR SCRIPT IS AS WHITE AS THE PAPER…
Read moreCreating Conflict
You can find lots of extra conflict in your story by considering what the characters EXPECT from each other, and what happens when those expectations are met with a very different reality. Most people get along well when they get what they expect from each other. That’s nice for life. Not great for story. Watch…
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