Whether it’s a scene, a joke, an action, or a visual – if it’s in your script it should earn…
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One of cinema’s greatest director/composer relationships was that of Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. The pair first began working together…
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Contrast. You see it everywhere. Sweltering summers and frosty winters. Barren deserts and tropical rainforests. There is a cosmic yin-yang…
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Classical music—be it Baroque, Romantic, Modernist or the Classical period itself—is rich in its breadth of musical character and dramatic…
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The Wire is the Citizen Kane of television, revolutionizing television and televisual storytelling just as Citizen Kane revolutionized cinema and…
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Nostalgic television is on the rise. Shows from the 1990s like Full House, X-Files and Will & Grace have all…
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“The score just had to serve the film. You have to make the score sound like the film as much…
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The work of a writer is not so much about what happens in public, but about what transpires behind closed…
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Who makes us laugh in real life? Typically, there are two kinds of people. The first is the outrageous friend or…
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It was an exceptionally strong year for movies, which is also to say it’s been an exceptionally strong year for…
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