Noelle Buffam
A lifelong entertainment industry lover, Noelle Buffam did not find her true passion as a screenwriter until age nineteen. Although she does not have a Masters in Film nor an impressive list of industry jobs, she does have qualifying life experiences that include but are not limited to: assisting in multiple bull castrations, representing Tweens everywhere by appearing in The New York Times, training with Navy SEALs, and achieving perfection in the form of a grilled cheese sandwich. On any given evening, Noelle can be found watching Jeopardy with her trusty companion: her English Bulldog, Memphis.
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Same Old Story, Small New World
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In 2005, I had completed a high-concept commercial romantic comedy spec script, which got rave reviews, until Will Smith and Kevin James hit the big screen in the successful rom-com Hitch. My script, unfortunately, was not too dissimilar. I was devastated. Countless drafts and the better part of a year, I thought, down the tubes. But my manager made a suggestion: keep the story but change the world, a world that no one had seen before, something really different. Something special. Something memorable. So my corporate metropolis became a Podunk Renaissance Faire.…
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Eight Scene Questions
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The Scene
A scene is a complete unit in of itself, with a beginning, middle, and end. And a feature is just a whole bunch of scene put together to tell a larger story. So therefore scenes are the many essential parts put together in the right way to complete the whole. Here are some important scene questions to answer: 1. What is the purpose of each scene? How does it advance the story? Does it reveal something important about the character? 2. Whose scene is it? What does he/she want? What is his/her obstacles to getting it? What is the conflict in the scene? 3. Is the scene…
