Story. Screenplay. Sale.
I’m expressing my gratitude to the team behind WordPress at WordCamp Australia in Sydney. More photos on the blog of WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. WordPress is the amazing free, Open Source software powering this and millions of other blogs around the world. (photo: Halans) Karel FG SegersKarel Segers wrote his first produced screenplay at age … Read more
The Story Dept. is proud to be part of the first Creative Masters Forum DVD: “Ron Cobb: Concept to Creation” Karel Segers interviews the legendary writer/director, designer, concept artist Ron Cobb about his life, his cartoons, his views on cinema, science-fiction and the future. Ron also shares his experience about working on genre-defining and defying … Read more
Australia has its first independent feature film on BluRay and it’s Kieran Galvin’s PUPPY, which I worked on as a co-producer (and a couple of other roles, too). Kieran pitched the idea to me one day in Melbourne and soon after we started developing it. Eighteen months later Kieran was on set directing the film. … Read more
Zinneman called it a ‘necessary evil’ and wordsmith par excellence David Mamet says: “A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.“ I am not an expert, not even a native English speaker and I most certainly lack a deep knowledge of vocabulary. My passion is for story and structure. So much … Read more
Following UNK’s publication of his post on The Mid Point and to the benefit of the students in a recent HERO’S JOURNEY workshop, I have updated the article of 20 April last year about this important turning point. Since writing the below post, I have come to realise that the mid point may well be … Read more