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Whether you’re drafting your very first short screenplay or you’re a seasoned veteran with half a dozen features under your belt, the time will always come for feedback on your wri...
Screenwriting is incredibly hard. I am sure you know that, but there are times it's worth acknowledging so you don't go crazy. But really, what you're doing is both telling a story...
Wade Patterson is a cinematographer, writer, and producer who recently shared his experience making shorts and features with Film Courage. His projects include Death Cipher and the...
“A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“Something has to happen in every scene.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
Screenwriter, novelist, editor, professor, and New York Film Academy instructor Matt Harry has taken one of the longer roads to a working career in Hollywood. Everyone comes to the...
What do Katy Perry, Charles Dickens, and the Bible have in common?According to writer Mark Forsyth, they're all leaning on the same handful of ancient formulas or patterns of langu...
“Every scene should be able to answer three questions: “Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don’t get it? Why now?”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
START WITH CHARACTERS: “The plot is just the vehicle by which the characters are revealed. You create a bunch of characters and let them…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
I was talking to a friend earlier this week about revisions and how we approached them. He asked me what kind of notes I like to get as a writer, and I don't think I had a preferen...
Suleika Jaouad writes memoirs. She came to writing the way none of us would willingly choose—from a hospital bed, at 22, while being treated for leukemia. She's not a screenwriter,...
I'm on a contained story kick right now. My creative partner and I are fresh off a short film shoot and want to make something else, but we want to make it as easy on ourselves as...
I get it. When you finish a script, your likely next goal is to get it read. You’d probably prefer that someone who can do something with it read it. That means a producer, directo...
“If something funny or scary or interesting happens to me, the first thing I think is, ‘Can I turn that into a script?’Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
When you're deep in a screenplay draft, it's easy to obsess over dialogue and structure and forget entirely about how your scenes might be lit. That's a production concern, right?...
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece, Psycho, broke new ground for the horror genre in countless ways. From dropping hints about the twist everywhere you look, to switching main cha...
“There’s a great story I heard the other day that I’ll rip off. I guess it’s a classic Japanese story about a tea ceremony expert who got…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
Jeff Kitchen is a screenwriting consultant whose work centers on what he describes as seven dramatic tools for building a story. In a Film Courage video, he works through a pitch i...
“I think that much of good screenwriting is about carpentry.Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
The Criterion Collection just dropped a 4K release of Body Heat, and with it comes a new interview with writer/director Lawrence Kasdan. And we always love learning from the greats...
“That faith if you put the bad, easy version of a scene on the page, the good version will come tomorrow. That’s writing.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“Like your soul, you can mistreat your gift. That energy, if it’s not channeled in the proper respectful manner, will come out in…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
John Schimke knows a thing or two about doing the work. The AFI Directing alum has spent several years shaping emotionally resonant stories as the lead editor and producer of Emmy...
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