Video – The Story Department

[Video]: The Ken Burns Effect

Jamie Wynen — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 03:21:28 +0000

‘All story is manipulation. ‘

What gives a great story the power to move us? Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (Vietnam, Jack Johnson, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History) provides some key insights into how the skilful use of emotionally charged storytelling can bring alive historic events at 24 frames per second.

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[Video]: Oscar Nominee Dan Gilroy talks Nightcrawler

Jamie Wynen — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 04:47:13 +0000

‘Nightcrawler is the most personal film I’ve ever written… I think there’s a desperation in young people… who are willing to take jobs and do things they normally wouldn’t do.’

Dan Gilroy talks about the rise of the antihero (such as Walter White, Don Draper), the need to survive in an increasingly unequal world, and how the best writing often flows from what the issues that occupy your thoughts.

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[Video]: Tim Sullivan on Screenwriting and Fear

Jamie Wynen — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 08:12:23 +0000

How many times have you had a great idea for a movie – only to give up on it, worried that it’s not good enough? Tim Sullivan gives an insightful and entertaining lecture on how to silence the inner critic during the creative phase.

Tim Sullivan began his career as a scriptwriter with the filmmaker Derek Jarman before joining Granada TV. He became a director at the company his production credits at Granada included Coronation Street, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett and Cold Feet. He has worked extensively as a screenwriter both in the UK and the US. His screen credits include A Handful of Dust, Where Angels Fear To Tread, Letters to Juliet and Jack and Sarah, which he wrote and directed.

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[Video]: John August Pt 2 – Better Scene Description

Jamie Wynen — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:25:13 +0000

Working on a rewrite? At a loss as to how to go about it? Successful Hollywood screenwriter John August (Big Fish, Frankenweenie, The Nines) takes us on Part 2 on how to rewrite scene description to feel less like a shopping list and more like the movie you want to see on the screen…

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[Video]: John Truby on Successful Writing

Jamie Wynen — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 05:58:12 +0000

‘It’s also important that writers read a lot of scripts. Because it’s only through reading a lot of scripts that you get a sense of the pacing that a professional script has…’

A rich, full-length interview with acclaimed screenwriting teacher John Truby on the state of Hollywood, the market forces of filmmaking, and the keys to successful storytelling.

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[Video]: Clooney and Heslov’s Art and Masculinity

Jamie Wynen — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 01:32:05 +0000

Beyond being perhaps one of the most iconic actors of his generation, the Silver Fox has been an active filmmaker since 2002, directing several feature films including Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Good Night and Good Luck, about the real life broadcast journalist Edward R Murrow’s struggle to bring down Senator McCarthy.

The Monuments Men, a film with a heavyweight cast – Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, even John Goodman – is the result of a collaboration between George Clooney and Grant Heslov (with whom Clooney collaborated with for Goodnight and Good Luck). But is it a vanity project, an impending disaster, or a genuinely good flick?

Both actors, both producers, and both lovers of Art with a capital A, the two talk about the battles to preserve culture from the erosion of war and the of men who fought them; and plucking amazing stories from the annals of history.

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[Video]: Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara

Jamie Wynen — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:19:23 +0000

In an interview with podcaster Jen Grisanti, showrunner Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead, The Shield, Crash, Hawthorne) discusses the difference between cable and network TV writing, and to create more meaningful subtext by avoiding on-the-nose dialogue.

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[Video]: How Movies Teach Manhood

Jamie Wynen — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:54:43 +0000

From The Wizard of Oz to Star Wars, TED Talks speaker Colin Stokes makes some surprisingly far-reaching observations about how male and female heroes influence how children perceive gender roles..

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[Video]: Alex Garland on subverting Judge Dredd

Jamie Wynen — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 02:00:40 +0000

Alex Garland (writer of the iconic 28 Days Later) talks about why writing a fascist cop protagonist contains the seeds of its own subversion, how to make him a functional anti-hero, and the relationship between comic books and film.

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