Example: Emotional prose in your script. Quick, compact, visual. The voice is exciting (Whiplash was written/directed by Damien Chazelle). Pro tip: Don’t use your prose to focus on the static, meaningless things in your scene.
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Writing for competitions – you have to make something new and interesting happen immediately. Not difficult with this one crazy trick. Make sameness WORK FOR YOU. Take that opening scene that’s so common and obvious and overused and MAKE IT END IN A COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED WAY. Instead of killing that pretty young woman, chase her…
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Read moreThere are two kinds of stories. Kind one is REASSURANCE. The world we live in will reward us with happiness if we respect its rules. Kind two is DISSONANCE. All rules exist to protect a privileged few, and resistance is annihilation. Most stories are of REASSURANCE, because they comfort. Stories of DISSONANCE insist that comfort…
Read moreDoes anyone really think Amelia Warner won’t “let” Jamie Dornan do a sequel? And good Sam T-J is out, too. Forget that the source material is just plain bad writing, the takeaway from all this wrongness is that you can’t make a decent script out of cardboard characters who don’t do anything interesting.
Read moreA pretty good rule for filmmaking is that if the biggest threat in your movie is the runtime, then the drama isn’t really working J.F. Sargent
Read moreThings to think about while developing motivations for your characters.
Read morevinebox: How others see your little sibling vs. how you do Vine is winning everything. (Source: http://vinebox.tumblr.com/)
Read morecatalyncrwth: annerocious: US navy VS lighthouse This is a myth, but it’s a great device to remember how plot and character relate to each other. Hint: Your protag is the lighthouse. Except when it’s a tragedy, in which case the plot is the lighthouse and the protag doesn’t get the memo. baahahahahahaha. good point. (Source:…
Read moreplotless-monster: It’s no surprise when people get educated, they don’t go back to the places they came from. (namely the small poor towns where people are batshit and hold a primitive mindset) Here’s another universal theme.
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