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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
