Co-Founder A Professor of Media Arts and English, teaching beginning and advanced collegiate screenwriting as well as mentoring writers and…
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Just like every car has four wheels and two axles, each screenplay has the same basic structural parts - the…
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FIVE AREAS OF SCRIPT ANALYSISHere is a quick checklist of the five major areas we consider when evaluating a screenplay.…
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The audience has seen the journey through which our protagonist has traveled. Yet the audience still wants reassurance that all…
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This is the meat and potatoes portion... AND the most difficult part of writing a screenplay. Most mediocre and flawed…
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Usually the story really begins at the moment when the first character faces the difficulty that he or she has…
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There is a lot to say about sequences, but the two most important principles to remember about sequences are: 1.…
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/rwrS-_tzefo A sequence is a self-contained portion of the entire story, usually about 10 to 15 minutes (pages) in length.…
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Generally speaking there are two (sometimes three) sequences in ACT I, four (sometimes five) in ACT II and two sequences…
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/m2-E7pENfKE Clearly a screenplay is built through scenes, sequences, acts, using tension and conflict, while eliciting hopes and fears, etc.,…
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