filmcourage: (Watch the video on Youtube here) BREAKING BAD Script Analysis – Pilot Episode – Theme and the A and B Stories via FilmCourage.com. Do you know you need 28 beats spread out over 4 storylines in your hour-drama pilot? Now you do! This is a fun little 9 minute intro to designing your script.
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More Pilots! lifeascaty: I love pilots. Good pilots & bad pilots, old pilots & new pilots. Just pilots. Here are 50 more for you to get your teeth into. (The original 70 pilot post can be found here.) 90210 (2008) Almost Human (2013) About a Boy (2013) Archer (2010) Arrested Development (2003)
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“Premise pilot” – flying wrestler Emmy-winning film and television writer Erik Bork (HBO’s BAND OF BROTHERS) defines the TV “premise pilot”, and suggests not writing one! A very good case for stamping out backstory in your pilot.
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When you take that feature script and make it over into a pilot, and you will… Open the end. Films arc to a close. TV shows tend to keep going. Unless they are Firefly, which I’m still too raw to discuss. The arc that you efficiently built into 100 pages now has to have the…
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