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When How To Train Your Dragon was released, some people learned to their horror that the film was written following Blake Snyder’s beat sheet. How could such a successful – and critically acclaimed – film be written by the numbers?? Creatives hate screenwriting ‘rules’. So they should. But it is also helpful to understand what rules … Read more
Story & Structure :: How To Conquer Your Third Act! :: Screenplay Review – Seed :: Screenplay Review – Mortdecai Script Perfection :: Fall In Love With Your Writing :: Inside the Writers Room with Breaking Bad Pitching & Selling :: What’s Your Place in the Film Industry? :: Rep Relationships Best of the Rest … Read more
A step back in time to an in-depth interview with Blake Snyder, author of the seminal screenwriting book Save The Cat. The conversation bounces from tangent to tangent, as the master discusses the roots of the screenplay Alien, the key to successful screenwriting, and the essence of film. If you liked this, check out more … Read more
Story & Structure :: The Four Types of People Most Likely to Murder Their Families :: Is Any Exposition Scene a “Crock of Sh*t”? :: Scene Description Spotlight: ‘Wall-E’ :: Scene Description Spotlight: ‘Saving Private Ryan
Story & Structure :: 11 Screenwriting Lessons You Can Learn From Casablanca :: Are You Planning Your Script? :: You Best Know What A Plot Point Is :: How to Write a Fight Scene :: Downbeat Film Endings and ‘The Road’ :: An Interview with Writer/Director Clare Kilner :: Screenplay Review: Pain and Gain :: … Read more