Story. Screenplay. Sale.
Blog entry written for The Story Dept. – Basic Edition on Blogger.
This may well be the best you will find on screenwriting this year. Thanks to Mystery Man & crew, we have access to the minds of Lucas, Spielberg and Kasdan at the time they were putting together the story elements of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Not only will you find a link to the … Read more
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
This blog started when a certain analysis of Michael Mann’s THE INSIDER sparked my frustration. Discussing BLADE RUNNER in a story workshop recently, I felt I was close to doing the exact same thing. To this date I don’t fully agree with her INSIDER analysis but Linda Aronson taught me this: to learn story, you … Read more