Mar 27 Love0 Tips for Tackling Screenwriting about Politics By Eric Owusu Screenwriting 101 Usually people watch movies to immerse themselves in worlds that don’t involve the problems of the real world, one of…Read More
Mar 26 Love0 Kathryn Bigelow: A Cohesive Canon of Strength By Tessa Chudy Screenwriting 101 Kathryn Bigelow's first movie was released in 1981, thirty-four years later she is arguably the best known female director in…Read More
Mar 25 Love0 Dean Craig: “You Can’t Do a Writing Job Just for the Money” By Cameron Cubbison Screenwriting 101 Dean Craig (Death at a Funeral, A Few Best Men) chats about studio work vs. screenplays that he's passionate…Read More
Mar 23 Love0 The WGA Discusses the Keys to Screenwriting Success By Cameron Cubbison Screenwriting 101 The WGA sits down with a slew of heavy hitters a few years ago and probes them on what…Read More
Mar 22 Love0 How To Create A Dark World in Your Screenplay By Eric Owusu Screenwriting 101 Brooding. Shadowy. Nightmarish. In dark, psychologically thrilling screenplays, these adjectives describe the themes and elements that make the screenplays what…Read More
Mar 21 Love0 Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo Delve into The Godfather Screenplay By Cameron Cubbison Screenwriting 101 Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo go deep into their collaboration on The Godfather script and what tactics made it…Read More
Mar 19 Love0 Character Relationships: Families Who Get Along and Those Who Don’t By Susan Kouguell Screenwriting 101 Conveying your characters’ dynamics and their layered and complex relationships is an essential element when writing a savvy screenplay. Characters…Read More
Mar 17 Love0 Screenwriting, Adaptations and Wording with Peter Straughan By Cameron Cubbison Screenwriting 101 The writer behind Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Men Who Stare at Goats discusses the complexities of adaptation,…Read More
Mar 14 Love0 Screenwriter Abi Morgan on Screenwriting Starting Points and Process By Cameron Cubbison Screenwriting 101 Abi Morgan (Shame, The Iron Lady) discusses how she writes while she also pinpoints what, in that writing, acts…Read More
Mar 12 Love0 How Seasoned Writers Get Battle Weary Readers to Read More Than Ten Pages of Their Specs (Part 2) By Rob Edwards Screenwriting 101 I read a lot of scripts. In fact, if a bum walked up to me in the street and handed…Read More