Paul Gulino

Paul Gulino is Associate Professor of Screenwriting at Chapman University, USA. View his Chapman University page here and his Storytelling Strategies column here. You can purchase a copy of Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach here.

10 Audience Principles In Screenwriting

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As a writer, you are playing a game with the audience. Therefore, in order to find success in screenwriting, it is necessary to understand how audiences work. And your first audience is your reader. I don’t mean reader in the sense of a particular Hollywood industry professional, though winning over such readers is critical to … Read more

The Deadline Approach

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Almost all writers are familiar with the use of dramatic tension. A character wants something and is having trouble getting it. This is the primary means of enthralling an audience in a feature screenplay. We are urged ceaselessly to develop characters with a strong drive. Characters that have a lot at stake, and a formidable opponent … Read more