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Hello everyone!As some of you already know, I do script doctoring / consulting service, with the sole intention of making your scripts even better than they already are!Sessions start from one hour, in person or on Skype, rated at 60 euros […]
Honest Trailers are great fun. Maybe those filmmakers that get trashed by them wouldn’t agree, but they are fantastic. That, though, is not the only reason why I’ll be making them part of this blog from now on. The reason […]
Protagonist Vs Point of View: Two key decisions that the writer has to take at the beginning of the writing process are, to identify who the Protagonist is and to choose from whose Point of View the story will be […]
Akira Kurosawa‘s framings have magic. His storyboarding work is magnificent. Sometimes though, the Master’s decisions come from very down to earth motives. In his book Making Movies, Sidney Lumet says: ” I once asked Akira Kurosawa why he had chosen to frame a […]
John Yorke‘s INTO THE WOODS, not to be confused with Stephen Sondheim’s well known musical of the same title, is a very British book. Many examples referred to in it, come from British television, no wonder, as Yorke is an expert TV […]
“Endings are a Bitch”: William Goldman Says, so it Must be True. The ending is where, as authors, we wanted to go all the time, although maybe we were not aware of it. Some endings can be surprising, but, if […]
To release a screenplay into the world too soon: this is one of the most common mistakes a writer can make. You are so eager of having it read, aren’t you? But once the script is out there, it’s too […]
I felt I have a personal connection with Save the Cat since I first read it. This is why: when I was in film school in London – end of the 80s, beginning of the 90s – I used to pay […]
Some love them, some hate them. The whole concept of a screenwriting manual is nonsense for many. Some others follow every bit of information like a divine law. I think both are partly right and partly wrong on the Screenwriting […]
William Goldman is someone I deeply admire. If you had Butch , All The President’s Men and Marathon Man in your résumé, I would admire you too… and the guy can talk! His books are a pleasure to read, both fiction […]