What level are we on?

You may have written these fabulous dramatic scenes. If they don’t play within a larger story context, your work may still feel shallow and be easily forgotten.

If, however, you create a complex dramatic fabric, the audience will feel that what they are seeing is larger than the scene they’re in. It will keep them engaged and make your story powerful and memorable.

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Screenwriting Best of the Web 16/08/09

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Here’s our weekly selection from the blogosphere. Feel free to recommend anything you believe might be of interest.

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A Filmmaker Speaks (2): Making It.

Soft Fruit

Award winning writer/director Christina Andreef has seen it all – not getting into film school, working with Jane Campion’s and finally seeing her own films at Cannes and Sundance.

Cleo Mees spoke with Christina about writing for the screen and seeing her screenplays through the production process.

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A Filmmaker Speaks (1): Writing it.

Soft Fruit, dir. Christina Andreef, 2000

Award winning writer/director Christina Andreef has seen it all – not getting into film school, working with Jane Campion and finally: seeing her own films at Cannes and Sundance.

Cleo Mees spoke with Christina about writing for the screen and seeing her screenplays through the production process.

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Farewell, Blake

I have been referring to SAVE THE CAT more and more often lately.  Blake brought the importance of concept and broad story structure back to the craft of screenwriting. To give you a glimpse of Blake and his books, I quote Carson Reeves’ blog. Snyder was the first person since Syd Field to break screenwriting … Read more