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The Masterclass series enables anyone to essentially have a one-on-one tutorial and sharing session with some of the best and biggest names in the industries. Comedian turned filmmaker Judd Apatow is a name associated with films like Knocked Up, The
Screenwriting is a fairly lonely exercise in translating your imagination to page. Converting your thoughts into text and visualising the eventual film playing out is one thing. Yet it can be quite difficult to establish tone when everything is just
Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay this year. It’s a hilarious, touching and edgy war satire about a boy in Hitler’s Youth Army who discovers his mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their
While the illusion of cinema is able to immerse you in other worlds, there are very hard rules when it comes to dialogue and screenplays. A curious example is Marriage Story, the Noah Baumbach independent drama with Adam Driver and
When it comes to writing a screenplay, especially a thriller, there’s a tendency for writers to stick to the genre’s propensity for twists and turns. While it is to be expected that there will be a couple of surprise plot
“It’s so formulaic.” The term is often bandied about by critics, who have come to encompass cookie-cutter film-making into one word. Coming from the word formula, the criticism is leveled at an apparent lack of inspiration, adhering to the safe
When it comes to cinema, there’s a broad range of possibilities when conveying your story through dialogue and scripting. In the age of silent movies, screen titles would relay the dialogue, meaning the only way they could communicate the spoken
What makes someone want to become a screenwriter? Usually the prospect of creating your own film comes from a love of movies. More specifically, we are inspired by or attracted to films that resonate with us beyond the celluloid. Being
While it’s still early days, it’s promising to have been asked to give comment on a prospective local crime thriller. The feature film with strong South African roots is currently in development and Spling was asked to read it and
“Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.” “You had to be there.” “You don’t know how it feels…” Writing about something and living through something are on opposite sides of the spectrum when it comes to experience. We can try