High Concept Writing and Character Writing begin March 13. One week left to register for those and then they will be closed to registration. CLICK HERE to register for March online classes.
This is a guest post from John Robert Marlow, author of Make Your Story a Movie: Adapting Your Book or Idea for Hollywood: 1 PITCH, 3 ELEMENTS, 10 SECONDS Everyone wants to sell a story. Almost no one can. Part of the reason is just that: people try to sell stories. But few (okay, no) working professionals have time to listen to or read every story that comes through the Read More ...
Categories: Articles, Books, Craft, Film, Screenwriting, The Academy of Film Writing, Writers
Want to know how to get a $375 class for a hundred bucks? Then this deal is for you. Read on – IF YOU BUY 3 DIGITAL COPIES OF MY BOOK FOR THE HIGHLY REASONABLE PRICE OF $9.99 each, I WILL GIVE YOU A FREE SIGNED HARD COPY when the book hits print in 2013 — all postage paid in the US. [Non-US peeps, sorry, I cannot predict roving Read More ...
Yez. There are open seats in Non-Static Writing. Travesty! But this is lucky for you, you can still register and grab one of those seats between now and Tuesday. Need a reason why? Three of my workshoppers have won Nicholl Fellowships. Oh. And so did I. Class starts Tuesday. :::register:::
Categories: Classes, Craft, Film, Max Adams, Non-Static Writing, The Academy of Film Writing, Writing
Syd Field came up with the 30/60/30 model years ago and being the only guy to come up with a description of structure, his structure concept stuck. It was in all the books. It was in all the lectures. It’s used pretty regularly in film circles to this day to estimate where in the course of a script a story event is happening. For example, if a studio Read More ...
Categories: Articles, Blogs, Classes, Craft, Film, Max Adams, Structural Writing, The Academy of Film Writing, Workshops, Writing
Since people are going to be descending on Austin in droves in coming weeks for the Austin Film Festival, armed with scripts and high hopes and, yes, terrible pitches — hey, that is how it works most times unless someone actually actively works on pitching or is just born with the Emerald Isles gift — I thought this might be a good time to bring this one back. It’s an Read More ...
Categories: Classes, Conferences, Craft, Festivals, Film, Max Adams, Screenwriting, The Academy of Film Writing, The Art of the Pitch, Writers, Writing
This is an excellent post from Bang2Write [@bang2write on twitter]: 7 Things Readers Can Tell About Your Script On Page 1 I’ve lost count over the years of how many writers have told me readers *can’t* know their story from the first ten pages. Those writers complain it’s not enough time and that readers are nasty creatures who form premature and false assumptions about the writing in front of them. Read More ...
Categories: Articles, Blogs, Craft, The Academy of Film Writing, Writing
Syd Field came up with the 30/60/30 model years ago and being the only guy to come up with a description of structure, his structure concept stuck. It was in all the books. It was in all the lectures. It’s used pretty regularly in film circles to this day to estimate where in the course of a script a story event is happening. For example, if a studio Read More ...
Categories: Craft, Screenwriting, Structural Writing, The Academy of Film Writing, Writing
Artificial action occurs when there is action described in scene description — which creates the illusion action is happening in a script — but it’s not real action. This includes “looking.” Which is just eyes in a character’s head being pointed in some direction and maybe then pointing in another, without a character moving from a stationary position. Or can just be scene description attempting to create an emotion Read More ...
Categories: Classes, Craft, Non-Static Writing, Screenwriting, Tips
False starts happen when instead of action launching in a story, there are several scenes leading up to that action that don’t launch action, the scenes are simply there to say, Action is going to happen, so here is a scene to say action is going to happen, and another to say action is going to happen – while the action never actually happens. Imagine two gun fighters standing Read More ...
Categories: Craft, Film, Screenwriting, Structural Writing, Tips, Writing
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Two January classes, The Art of the Pitch and Visual Writing, start January 10th. There are a couple seats left if you act fast: VISUAL WRITING Begins January 10, 2012 Visual Writing | Putting Vision Back Into Viewing | Online 6 Week Master Course | Start Date : 01.10.12 | MAKE YOUR READERS “SEE” YOUR MOVIE: You will learn how to use the visual elements space, light, and texture Read More ...