VISUALLY INTRODUCING A CHARACTER

Because of Tumblr, I started watching Hannibal and inadvertently fell wildly in love with Mads Mikkelsen’s voice. That’s not really an unusual thing for me, btw. So I went over to Netflix to check out some Danish films, and found a perfect visual character intro for you in the first ten seconds of Adam’s Apples….

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EXCAVATING YOUR STORY

That looks interesting, I will dig there: First draft – scraping away the surface: Second draft – I can almost see something: Getting notes – thanks, guys: Rewrites: Gotta be here somewhere – just one more draft: Found it – now for a little polish: Ready to submit:

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Notes from a Screenreader: The Same but What Now?

Notes from a Screenreader: The Same but What Now? nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. “The same but different” is the magic formula for a winning script. Does it mean anything or is it double speak for “I know it when I see it?” Patterns not formulas: Create familiar emotional patterns in new situations….

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I think in the event of a critique a writer isn’t happy with they (the writer) should set it aside: the story and the critique. Sometimes there isn’t enough emotional space between a writer and their work, when the critique comes in. Read the critique once, feel whatever it is you feel, and set it…

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IT’S DONE

No, it isn’t. People keep asking, how can so many scripts be so bad? They can’t be that bad. Surely you’re joking. No. A script can’t live on being technically correct. A script lives and dies on story. You must nail your story to the wall by executing your intent.

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I think the average guy thinks they’re pro-woman, just because they think they’re a nice guy and someone has told them that they’re awesome. But the truth is far from it. Unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, create these sort of fucked-up representations. Junot…

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5 STAR ESCALATION

Escalation keeps the story interesting. An individual escalation really works when it is set up as the thing we hope doesn’t ever happen. Then when it happens, we know the most shit has just hit the biggest fan. Rinse, then repeat until the end of act two.

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