filmmaking
By Helen Jacey
Another excellent resource from MWP, The Woman In The Story, while aimed at screenwriters, will help anyone to write better female characters. But this is not a quick wash and brush-up of the female myth, although those elements are present, rather Jacey explores female characters from several perspectives taking into changes and [...]
The world of screenwriting books is roughly split into two categories. In category one you have the standards, the books from acknowledged gurus like Syd Field and Robert McKee that espouse traditional 3-act structure and the major story elements that go into those three acts, and then there’s category two…basically, all the others. [...]
I’ve been a fan of Pilar Alessandra’s ‘On The Page’ screenwriting podcast for a couple of years, she has great guests, gets right to the heart of whatever the subject is and the stuff that gets surfaced is always really insightful and really useful but best of all she makes it really fun. She [...]
Definitely one of the more interesting screenwriting books I’ve come across in recent months, Reflections of the Shadow focuses on creating memorable Protagonists and Antagonists and, as the title suggests, demonstrating not just how they are different from each other but also how they are very much the same - reflections - and that’s what [...]
In the introduction to her excellent book Penny Penniston says…
“Dialogue puts conversation in motion. Great dialogue moves like a great athlete; it is nimble, precise, and powerful. It commands the attention, yet feels effortless in its execution. However, if we want our dialogue to move like an athlete, then we must train like an [...]
Your Screenplay Sucks! is a checklist of 100 of the most common errors that screenwriters - particularly new screenwriters - make, that stop the reader in their tracks and leave the writers opus forever destined to be filed under ‘bin’. Nicely sectioned into three ‘acts’ that cover Storytelling (idea, character, structure, scenes, dialogue), Physical [...]
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