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script a day, filmmaker interviews and more! Check out our full list
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Paula Landry shares lessons learned from
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Do you know who you are writing for? Paul
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what market you should be targeting—indie, studio or micro. Read More...
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Ray Morton discusses the importance of
clearly identifying the genre of your screenplay. Believe it or not, some
screenwriters purposely misidentify the genre of their work. Read More...
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Susan Kouguell interviews Searching for Ingmar Bergman
director Margarethe von Trotta about the challenges of exploring the inner life
of a film icon.
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Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker
James Morosini about making his new micro-budget feature, Threesomething, the nuts
and bolts of putting the film together, and the emotional ups and downs that
went along with it.
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For more than 25 years, Stine has been
writing horror for kids around the world with his Goosebumps series, which
has sold over 350 million copies in 32 languages. Here are four lessons from
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In this week's screenwriting tip, Ray Morton
discusses the importance of clearly identifying the genre of your screenplay.
Believe it or not, some screenwriters purposely misidentify the genre of
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When submitting your screenplay to
producers, agents and managers, and screenwriting contests, it is very
important that you correctly identify the genre of your screenplay.
Apart from a desire for accuracy, the main reason this is important is expectation. Readers will come to a script with certain expectations. These expectations are based on promises the writer provides via the script’s title, logline, and its identified genre. If you tell your reader that your script is a comedy, the reader will be expecting laughs. If the script then begins with someone dying of cancer or getting their head chopped off, the reader is going to be disappointed, no matter how good the rest of the script is or isn’t. And potential buyers tend not to buy scripts that disappoint them. It may seem hard to believe that a writer would or could misidentify the genre of his own screenplay, but it happens more often than you might guess. Read More... |
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Jeanne is the Editor of Script and adapted the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name. Her screenplays were selected as Top 25 Tracking Board Launch Pad, CSExpo Finalist, Second Round Sundance Episodic Lab, and PAGE Awards TV Drama Finalist. Twitter @jeannevb. |
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writing, documentaries and more! Let us inspire you to step out of your
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Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Executive
Producer Jeffrey Giles about his long career as an independent producer and
sales agent. We talk about strategies for how screenwriters can break into
this market. Read More...
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Writer and director Tamara Jenkins re-teamed
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Yorgos Lanthimos’ new film, The Favourite, screened
for the press the morning of its premiere as the opening night selection at
the New York Film Festival. Susan Kouguell took the opportunity to speak with
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Rona Edwards shares her interview with
Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker Barbara Multer-Wellin,
discussing her passion for making documentaries and uncovering the compelling
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Kim Garland interviews writer/director Chris
Sparling on his journey to getting his breakout film — BURIED — made and his
thriving career today.
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Director Vanessa Parise on directing for TV
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Being a liar in Hollywood, while trying to
break into the industry, will get you sucked into a black hole of “never to
succeed” faster than Marty McFly can travel back in time.
And there’s no time machine to undo the damage. Trust me, I’ve seen the carnage. I break down the lying into two categories: The Big Fat Lies and The Lazy Lies. Read More... |
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In this week's screenwriting tip, film
critic, filmmaker, and radio host Mike Sargent interviews Scott Beck and
Bryan Woods, screenwriters of the thriller, A Quiet Place, about their writing process,
breaking into the business, and more.
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A Quiet Place is billed as a horror film but it is more akin to a Twilight Zone episode
(which we discuss during the interview) the premise is that Aliens landed and
wiped out much of humanity and too late we discovered that though blind, they
have a heightened sense of hearing and the only way to escape detection is to
be very, very quiet. Those who have survived, have learned to live and communicate
virtually without making a sound as the slightest decibel outburst will
result in sudden vicious death.
The main story centers around a family of four who live in silence during the aftermath of the Alien invasion. Paramount Pictures describes the film, "In the modern horror thriller A Quiet Place, a family of four must navigate their lives in silence after mysterious creatures that hunt by sound threaten their survival. If they hear you, they hunt you." Mike Sargent: Bryan and Scott, my first question to both of you is; when did you first know you wanted to be storytellers? Read More... |
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Jeanne is the Editor of Script and adapted the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name. Her screenplays were selected as Top 25 Tracking Board Launch Pad, CSExpo Finalist, Second Round Sundance Episodic Lab, and PAGE Awards TV Drama Finalist. Twitter @jeannevb. |
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On ScriptMag.com
this week, our contributors share interviews with producer J. Todd Harris (The Kids Are All Right),
advice on protecting your ideas and more! Check out our full list
of contributors and follow them on Twitter too.
Many of you know I believe writers should write in multiple forms. I practice what I preach and write screenplays, novels, and magazine articles. You already have your screenplays on your hard drives, so why not turn them into novels? Join me in using the month of November to take the 30-day challenge of National Novel Writing Month to dip your toe into novel writing. If you need tips, save hundreds of dollars with our Writing Your Novel in 30 Days: Prep Kit to help you succeed! Now get reading and get writing! Read More... |
Is your story idea safe? Christopher
Schiller explores three very different films created from a shared idea to
calm writers fears about the potential theft of an idea. Read More...
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Producer J. Todd Harris, producer of The Kids Are All Right,
shares insights on breaking into screenwriting, working with producers,
finding representation and creating a long-lasting writing career. Read More...
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Susan Kouguell interviews documentary
director Frederick Wiseman at Manhattan’s Film Forum on the day before his
new film Monrovia, Indiana
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Ashley Scott Meyers talks with
Actor/Writer/Director/Producer Bradley Stryker about how he shot his latest
horror/thriller film, Land
of Smiles, on location in Thailand on a micro-budget. Read More...
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Have you considered adapting a script to
novel? Jeanne Veillette Bowerman challenges screenwriters to take on
NaNoWriMo challenge by turning their script into a novel. Read More...
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Few authors have better embedded believable
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Jeanne Veillette
Bowerman
Jeanne is the Editor of Script and adapted the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name. Her screenplays were selected as Top 25 Tracking Board Launch Pad, CSExpo Finalist, Second Round Sundance Episodic Lab, and PAGE Awards TV Drama Finalist. Twitter @jeannevb. |
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Our ScriptMag.com
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The opening scenes of a story set the tone
and creates the story's world. The inciting incident sets the story in
motion. But one of the most important and least talked about elements of
dramatic storytelling is the build. Read More...
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Screenwriter/Producer/Director Joe Benedetto
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Script’s Editor, Jeanne Veillette Bowerman,
explains how applying these screenwriting techniques to your fiction can offer
benefits like sharper dialogue, improved pacing and stronger characters. Read More...
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Ashley Scott Meyers talks with screenwriter
and producer Erik Bork (Band of Brothers) about his new screenwriting book: The Idea: The Seven Elements of a
Viable Story for Screen, Stage or Fiction. We dig into a number
of the lessons that he teaches in the book, including the crucial aspect that
basic idea plays in the ultimate success of the project. Read More...
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In online lectures, supplemental readings,
and written assignments and exercises, we’ll consider plot and character arcs
and what makes them work; the scene as the essential, powerful unit of story;
how a writer might use multiple genres in crafting story, and the degree to
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One your screenplay is complete, use a
logline and synopsis for marketing tools. They effectively and concisely tell
your story. If well done, they incite a person to request your script.
Therefore, they are bait!
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In Understanding Screenwriting, Tom Stempel
analyzes the movies and TV shows, Sicario:
Day of the Soldado,Yellowstone, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Skyscraper, Killing
Eve, Sharper Objects, The Bold Type, Dietland. Read More...
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Ashely Scott Meyers talks with
writer/director Boaz Yakin (Now
You See Me, From Dusk Till Dawn 2, Safe) about his new horror
film, Boarding School
and breaking into the business. Read More...
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Step-by-Step Guide to Creating High Concept Ideas; How to Vet a Script Consultant; How to Find a Literary Agent; Creating Short Film Ideas; Proper Screenplay Format Tips; Creating Strong Protagonist; How to Navigate a Pitchfest; TV Pilot Kit; How to Write a Screenplay Webinar, and MORE! See Full List of Free Downloads... |
Jeanne Veillette
Bowerman
Jeanne is the Editor of Script and adapted the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name. Her screenplays were selected as Top 25 Tracking Board Launch Pad, CSExpo Finalist, Second Round Sundance Episodic Lab, and PAGE Awards TV Drama Finalist. Twitter @jeannevb. |
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