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Robert McKee is the most successful screenwriting lecturer and story consultant working today. He first offered his incredibly popular “Story Seminar” in 1983, and has been giving the three-day class to doting audiences across the entire world. McKee’s approach de-emphasizes
Nearly every academic look at screenwriting will touch on the importance of the Three Act Structure in a classically satisfying narrative. The modern consensus has settled on Syd Field’s Paradigm as the prime example, from his indispensable book; Screenplay –
If you were ever given the talk about how indispensable mind maps and other such charts are in planning creative ventures, and had a healthy sense of skepticism regarding them, who could blame you? It is not absurd to assume
One of the things writers may have collectively discovered during this pandemic is the limits of their usual desks or rooms and so on when it comes to finding inspiration. Falling into an unstimulating rut is a nightmare for a
Billy Wilder is the screenwriter’s favourite screenwriter. This isn’t exactly hyperbole; Vulture polled over 40 of the top contemporary screenwriters to name their favourite predecessor. Wilder came out on top, trailed mostly by the more common, modern examples (Tarantino, Kaufman,
Famous for his elaborately indulgent screenplays, filled with non-sequiturs, it can be difficult to imagine the sort of scenes that even Quentin Tarantino decided he could part with. As a writer he’s a savant, so what was so wrong with
Of the animated films nominated for the best original screenplay Academy award, every single one has been a Pixar film. Pixar, of course, being the studio responsible for Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Wall-E, Ratatouille, and almost all the
Film being a visual medium can make it particularly difficult to think of ways to get across information about a character without them blabbering it out loud, and it is in fact often the mark of real talent when a
Tarantino is known as the video clerk turned director, a guy who’s raw passion for cinema and pastiche taste when it comes to making movies filters into every fibre of his being. Often referencing the kung fu and spaghetti western