Story. Screenplay. Sale.
The craft of telling a story starts with structure skills.
Here’s a little-known secret about stories: they’re about what your characters do. Okay, so maybe it’s not so little known. I mean, duh, right? Your character does something and then he does something else—and, presto, you have a plot! And yet writers often end up spending a huge chunk of time describing what their characters … Read more
Over half a century on, Psycho is still a tremendous inspiration to low budget filmmakers, as Hitchcock shot the film on a shoestring budget of under a million dollars. Because many “B” movies did well commercially at the time, Hitchcock wanted to see if he could turn a solid, inexpensive film into a success. Keeping … Read more
Voice – Do you have it? Every new writer struggles with this question. But before they can even begin to find answers, let alone develop their own, they have to ask… by The Single Screenwriter Voice, WTF is it? Simple answer – nobody knows. You think I kid, but the industry joke answer is, “I … Read more
We’ve long had a love-affair with American television drama and the list of US shows we love to watch is long. by Hayley McKenzie Whether you were there twenty years ago with The Sopranos, E.R and Grey’s Anatomy, or ten years ago with House and Dexter, or are just discovering the joys of The Americans, … Read more
2013 was an excellent year for movies – perhaps the best in quite a few years. And there are many films that I would be very content with winning the Oscar. But for me, the best movie of the year is Her. And no one is more shocked about that than I am. by Danny … Read more