January 2012
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What movies should I be watching to get filmmaking... →
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“You’ve got a choice ahead of you. This isn’t a one-time-only choice, but one...”
– Should you write to the market or write what you want?
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Screenwriting Tip #885
screenwritingtips:
Try writing short films — or, hell, even short stories — between larger projects to cleanse your mental palate. Also, finishing things tends to boost confidence.
The Play’s the Thing
lettersandlight:
Until last week, it had been about a year since I went to “see a show”: a stage production of Beauty and the Beast.
I was reminded then, as I always am when I go to the theater, how much I love plays and how I really ought to see more of them. And more regularly.
And then another year passed before I found myself happily—luckily—invited to see Cirque du Soleil’s...
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“If you calculated all the people in the world that have at one time or another...”
– Chuck Wendig
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Looking for something to do with your Script... →
The BBC Writer’s Room is looking for:
Films Films are self-contained stories, usually running from 75 minutes to an hour and a half or so.
TV Drama A series uses recurring characters to tell a self-contained story each week, while a serial is a single story told over a finite number of episodes.
TV Sitcom A TV sitcom is a comedy which uses the same characters to tell a self-contained...
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Script versus screenplay
A screenplay is a script. They are just different words for the same thing.
The only difference is that a screenplay usually refers to a script for a movie or film while the word script by itself can also include writing for television, theater, comic books or graphic novels (which are written from scripts) or video games.
Is a screenplay harder than writing any other type of script? I...
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QUICK AND DIRTY COPYEDITING Some quick tips to... →
