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How to Write a Readable Script
What are the primary criteria that will ensure your script stands out from the rest? Steven Fernandez reveals some essential secrets to getting read. In my 4½ months in LA, one of the most important screenwriting lessons I learned is that there are simple principles to follow to ensure Hollywood screenplay readers will accept the … Read more
The Untouchables – Hiring the Mentor
Mentors appear to the heroes at the exact right time, usually in the second sequence, after the Inciting Incident has left the hero lost and confused. Reluctant to take up the challenge, the Hero continues to live in denial. The Hero denies the fact that the world has changed, that he/she needs to change and … Read more
Best o/t Web 08 Nov 09
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- Bill Martell celebrates 50 years of NORTH BY NORTH WEST
- Take some time out at film school with Mystery Man
- Download American Beauty and Chinatown screenplays.
- How to make a Charlie Kaufman movie (if you really wanted)
- A movie is ultimately made in the edit. Why not write for the edit
- How to sell? Here’s the answer. Or rather: 101 answers.
- Pitch to yourself! After all, you are your worst critic.
- Did you ever stop to think the villian thinks he’s the good guy?
- Dropping product names, okay?
- Your first draft always sucks. Finish what you started.
- Where Fantastic 4 Rise of the Silver Surfer went wrong, so wrong
- Pixar writer/director Pete Docter: “A completely messy hodgepodge”
- How to write for editors: the last rewriters of the show.
Alien: Sex in deep space
With a prequel to the 1979 hit flick Alien directed by Ridley Scott in the works, Bryn Tilly re-opens the case on the original film and dissects what is brooding under its surface… “The people who made the first Alien were artists, Ridley Scott, Giger, the writers – they invented everything. The rest of us … Read more