Rachael Prior, Head of Development – Film for UK production company Big Talk Pictures, shares advice on how to write outlines and treatments for feature films. https://twitter.com/RachaelPriorMBE/status/571805463370596352 Defining Treatments &…
…“likeability”. The American TV character most like Rita that I can think of is Mary Shannon, the strong-headed U.S. Marshall main character of the Witness Protection Program crime drama In…
…dead clay. …The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars. One of the…
…than we used to. The dominance of the 90 minute feature form was driven by the economic model. Theatrical release has become less of a necessity for filmmakers, whereas online…
John Thornton Williams explains a better way to “show don’t tell” how your characters are feeling: through indirection of image, or projecting their emotions onto the world around them. “By…
…your reaction is to this lie, the better. Note that there are lies of erasure and omission as well as more obvious lies. Now, rewrite the lie in the context…
…film ‘Thelma & Louise’ drives new Utah-based short film contest …a new contest — sponsored by the Utah Film Commission and Zions Bank — offers filmmakers a chance to film…
…attempt to convey a sense of place–how well they succeed is another question. However, a handful of stories and storytellers stand out for the absence of place. In flash fiction,…
The Google Ngram Viewer is one of my all-time favourite secret-weapon writing tools. It’s a free tool from Google that can show you when a word entered the language, how…
