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Tales from the Script: 50 Hollywood Screenwriters Share Their Stories. This book covers many aspects of the screenwriter’s life through the eyes of renowned authors. It’s a work about screenwriting filled with advice and wisdom from established Hollywood writers. And…
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Have you ever seen an actor or actress in a movie, you know instantly that you’ve seen him or her many times before, but can not remember a single time you did? Those “unknown” actors, who fill the spinal cord of many…
Here is a link to Espinof to a very relevant post about SFX. Check the videos about Mindhunter‘s visual effects, Zodiac‘s, Gone Girl‘s and The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo‘s. It really shows how David Fincher is into visual effects that can…
Lajos Egri (1888-1967) wrote The Art of Dramatic Writing back in the ’40s. The book is not about writing film but theatre. Still, it’s considered chronologically as the first “how-to“ work ever made about screenwriting -even if the author didn’t know. Many concepts in…
Continue reading Best Screenwriting Books: THE ART OF DRAMATIC WRITING
Great work from VoorDeFilm about the painters that influenced Lynch here. More about Making Movies? Please check our posts The 5 Best Books on Making Movies, by Darren Aronofsky, Film Blocking, What is it?, Best “Making Of” Books: EASY RIDERS, RAGING…
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…
In 1975, Jaws was a Monstrous Success. It quickly grew into an iconic piece of filmmaking, made Spielberg a star and it became the first blockbuster summer movie ever. Obviously, a lot has been written about it, but there are three main…
Many of us have grown tired of CGI effects in movies. So often they look fake, they take our minds away from the story, they become annoying. Occasionally, though, they become real magic. These times we may not even recognise…
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…
