40 days ago by MOGBlogger

It's not a novel. By nature screenplays are not designed to be spellbinding, normally...

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42 days ago by Jacob Krueger

Script Analysis: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t yet seen Where The Wild Things Are, you may want to check it out before you read this article. Let’s set aside the question right now of whether or not Where The Wild Things Are is a good movie. Let’s set aside the question of ...

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50 days ago by davidwhistler

The Midpoint of a screenplay isn’t just a bookmark slipped into the center of a script, it is in fact a plot point no less important than the Act One or Act Two Turns. Yet it’s perhaps the most neglected element in many screenplays, even in some that manage to make their way to the silver screen. Th ...

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76 days ago by joolsayodeji

Finished restructure of draft 3. Will now try and do one more pass aiming to make it funnier. I’m a bit afraid of anything I write being boring. Think this is my fear of being too ’serious’ and my fear of putting emotion at the forefront but trying to not let this stop this piece being what I origin ...

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80 days ago by Prof

COURSE INFORMATION AWARD:NONE 6 LESSON COURSE In this six-lesson course you will learn the basics of screenplay structure, how to craft credible characters and dialogue, as well as how to put your best “pitch” forward with agents, studios, and independent producers. Each assignment is personally cri ...

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127 days ago by mogblogger

How do you keep one hand on the wheel of the story’s structural requirements while submersed deep in creating?

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127 days ago by mogblogger

Writing a screenplay is creating a garden and defining whose paths shall cross into it and how they will influence the others you've put there...

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128 days ago by Jessica & Julie

When we’re not making short films, we’re writing long ones. So far we have two: a romantic comedy that has achieved moderate success (Semi-finalist in the 2009 Outfest competition; Quarterfinalist in the 2009 BlueCat competition) and a comedy-drama loosely based on real events about 3 people who met ...

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132 days ago by Jacob Krueger

It may be hard to tell from some of the stuff you see coming out of Hollywood, but believe it or not, no one sets out to be a mediocre writer. No writer dreams of writing that crappy screenplay with the unintelligible plot. No writer fantasizes about creating paper thin characters, canned dialogue, ...

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136 days ago by Nathan

Structure, structure, structure. Page 17, midpoint, climax. You’ve climbed walls and beaten down doors on your path from idea to completed first-draft—and woven the proverbial needle through every structural check-point along the way. Your hero lost it all at the end of Act 2B, rose from the ashes i ...

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