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Screenwriters are the unsung heroes of Hollywood who can make or break a film before shooting commences. They’re the originators, the creatives who come up with the stories, the characters and the dialogue to make movies memorable. The writer’s journey
Screenwriting is a challenging craft and it’s important to be able to critique your own work in order to improve it. Having said that, it can be difficult to be objective about your own writing, especially if you’re emotionally attached
We recently received a script that required a complete rewrite. The screenplay was not up to scratch when it came to the use of language, grammar and needed some extensive work from a formatting perspective. The script was essentially an
Corey Mandell begins one of the most extensive and approachable interviews ever conducted for the excellent resource on screenwriting that is Film Courage, by asserting that it is easier now than it has ever been to find someone looking to
Characters who don’t have the benefit of the spoken word must be anthropomorphized visually, but how was Chuck Jones capable of anthropomorphizing a straight line. It has no eyes. No body to contort, gesture with or express posture. A line
All Is Lost, which chronicles the harrowing fight for survival of a veteran mariner left adrift after his vessel collides with a stray shipping container, rode what is for a Hollywood film, a distinctively simple premise to extraordinary acclaim. The
UCLA Professor Pat Verducci, renowned for her work as a writing coach and story consultant, gave a full hour and 40 minutes of her time to answer questions about the writing process for Film Courage. Over the course of the
If one of the most basic attributes to compelling storytelling is conflict, forces standing in opposition to the protagonist, this demands that the protagonist have a motivation or goal that can be challenged. A state, achievement, character or object that
With each film in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series earning less than the last, it seems that Warner Bros. has managed to squander the potential of the Wizarding World, previously one of their most successful properties.
The films of Mike Mills (including Beginnings and 20th Century Women) are marked by a tenderness and sensitivity that produce a rare effect: His characters are recognised as full human beings, each trying to make their way through life to