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Phoebe Waller-Bridge Does Things Differently

Phoebe Waller-Bridge Does Things Differently

She won the public over with the delightfully forthright and hilarious Fleabag, injected with fourth-wall-breaking splashes of personality and wit, but these days it’s clear writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a consummately blockbuster-friendly writer as well (if we can assume as

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How Scorsese Uses Narration

Scorsese Narration

When writing for the screen, you should famously show rather than tell, an expression which seems tailormade to shoot down any suggestions of voice-over. Who could forget Brian Cox’s portrayal of screenwriting guru Robert McKee in Adaptation, bellowing “God help

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Your Film Should be an Essay

Your Film Should be an Essay

Per Top Development on YouTube, when editing your script, there is one tool more helpful than any other ‘quick fix’ you could employ. If they’re right, that would put us out of business, but let’s hear them out. Let’s say

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The (INCREDIBLY SPECIFIC) Bergman Method

Ingmar Bergman Process

Among that most pedantic of professions (the writer/director), Ingmar Bergman ranks alongside Stanley Kubrick and Fritz Lang as occupying the bleeding edge between perfectionism and folly. Luckily, Bergman was far less tight-lipped about the writing process than his compatriots, and

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A Secret Christmas Ingredient

A Secret Christmas Ingredient

Very few genres or subgenres of filmmaking have as many expected elements as Christmas films. Just as you’re meant to haul out the old familiar decorations year on year, if you as the screenwriter behind ye olde holiday movie don’t

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The Plusses and Pitfalls of Writing to Music

Writing to Music

We’re not talking about writing a scene with a particular track in mind for use in your film’s soundtrack (an article for another time perhaps) but taking the time to curate a playlist for the purpose of the tone for

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Jeanne Dielman – Writing ‘Nothing’

Jeanne Dielman – Writing ‘Nothing’

Movies are full of magic tricks, not the least of which is the ability to have the objects, characters and actions depicted transcend their real-world implications, and take on greater significance. Transcendental filmmaking is the means by which Ozu can

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Need a Great Movie Title? Steal from Shakespeare!

Need a Great Movie Title? Steal from Shakespeare!

This may seem like a rudimentary solution, but if you find a great fit for your work in the pages of the first folio, you’ll be joining a proud tradition of writers haughtily self-congratulating themselves for their bardolatry and getting

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That Ealing Feeling

That Ealing Feeling

The Ealing studios story began in 1902, and their long legacy stretches the lifespan of the oldest continuously working film studio in the world, still in working order to this day. Despite this, ‘Ealing’ is as inseparable from the idea

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How They Adapted The Lord of the Rings

Lord of the RIngs

Video-essayist and author Lindsay Ellis, following an absence during the release of her novels Axiom’s End and Truth of the Devine, has published an extensive Nebula Original video-essay about the film series which first ignited an interest in filmmaking in

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