Paul Peditto is an award-winning screenwriter and director. His low-budget film Jane Doe starring Calista Flockhart won Best Feature at the New York Independent Film & Video Festival. Six of his screenplays have been optioned including Crossroaders to Haft Entertainment (Emma, Dead Poets Society). He recently wrote and produced the micro-budget feature Chat, currently distributed on iTunes, VUDU, YouTube, and Dish Network by Gravitas Ventures. . . . more

Screenplayed

February 21, 2024 0 Comment

Good Reader… Hopefully you are already hip to the SCREENPLAYED. This idea of “clips and scripts” isn’t new. Sit down with a favorite movie, pull up the screenplay, and let ‘er roll. You can see –maybe like you’ve never seen before–all sorts of unknown detail about the movie at script level. What was added? What […]

Devolve- Case Study

December 29, 2023 0 Comment

This week we’re going to look at the A to Z making of my second web series, Devolve. Hopefully you can learn from each stage of pre-production, production, and post. Vamos! CASE STUDY: DEVOLVE I got involved with Devolve in the summer of 2014 and helped produce it in late January, 2015. But let’s start […]

Screenwriting Links!

October 24, 2023 0 Comment

Good Reader… This week just some big juicy screenwriting links for you! Bring ’em on…  SCREENWRITING SOFTWARE  https://store.finaldraft.com/final-draft-11.html https://www.celtx.com/index.html https://nofilmschool.com/writersolo-screenwriting-software http://www.fadeinpro.com/ Writer’s Duet https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/screenwriting-software/ https://nofilmschool.com/Free-Script-Writing-Software THE TRADES  http://variety.com/ http://deadline.com/ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ BEST SCREENPLAY WEBSITES  http://www.imsdb.com/ http://www.simplyscripts.com/oscar_winners.html http://www.script-o-rama.com/table.shtml MasterClass PODCASTS https://johnaugust.com/scriptnotes –JOHN AUGUST SCRIPTNOTES PODCAST  http://scriptchat.blogspot.co.il/ -SCRIPT CHAT- PODCAST  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/broken-projector-movie-podcast/id592995322?mt=2 http://www.wga.org/writers-room/features-columns/3rd-fairfax-podcast http://davebullispodcast.podbean.com/ BEST SCREENWRITING BLOGS & WEBSITES  […]

Sexy Format, V 2.0

August 31, 2023 0 Comment

Hello Good Reader… Let us continue on with our impossible mission of making the dullest topic on earth– screenwriting format– somehow, some way, sexy. Soldiering on! ACTION LINES Keep it tight! Don’t overwrite! It’s all well and good to tell you this, but how many action lines is too many? Are there rules? Not really. […]

The Cut Instinct

August 12, 2023 0 Comment

Every scene exists for a reason. When you outline, what you’re doing is writing out the scenes that are essential to telling your story. Presumably, when you finish your outline, every scene exists for a purpose. You’re ready to write the movie. Approach each new scene in this matter: What am I trying to accomplish in […]

Go to the wonderful Buzzfeed article from 2015, “129 of the most beautiful shots in movie history” and you won’t find those images. What you will find are lots of “The Image Is No Longer Available” notices. Fortunately, I did save some of them from this post five years ago. I wondered what the scripts […]

This article is dedicated to my brother Chris, and his 17+ year Don Quixote’s journey to make Black Wings Has My Angel. I’ve kept it in a metal box buried in the backyard because for seven years because my brother refused to allow its publication, but the time is finally right. Radioactive half-life, attained. Even […]

Physical Comedy

January 30, 2023 0 Comment

“Physical comedy is a form of comedy focused on manipulation of the body for a humorous effect. It can include slapstick, clowning, mime, physical stunts, or making funny faces.[1] Physical comedy originated as part of the Commedia dell’arte.[2] “–WIKIPEDIA This is a screenwriting blog. But sometimes the laugh isn’t in dialogue. Sometimes actor business steals the scene. It’s in a piece of physical […]

Hello Good Reader… The French poet Lautreamont in his master work Les Chants de Maldorer spoke of having no time for lunch due to his pursuit of the ostrich across the painted desert– much like that “Super Genius”, Wil-E-Coyote…   What’s this got to do with screenwriting? Zero! Other than, perhaps, your relentless pursuit to […]

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