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Orlando Hispanic Film Festival 2009 Call for Entries
The Orlando Hispanic Film Festival (OHFF) announced a call for entries for their 2009 Hispanic Film Festival held September 16th-20th.The festival is open to US and foreign films in five categories:...
View ArticleKill Your Outline - A Screenwriter's Guide to Discovering Your Character by...
Young writers often get obsessed with writing for the audience. Even in the earliest drafts, their focus is on sneaking in tons of exposition about their characters, layering themes or symbolic motifs,...
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Screenplay Formula, Treatment, Template - Star Trek (2009) by Kal Bishop
Star Trek (2009) is a classic example of the 510+ stage Hero's Journey (Monomyth) screen and story writing pattern; this film doesn't stray far from the template at all. Examples include:a) Hero Parent...
View ArticleFor Screenwriters - What If My Writing Isn't Good? How to Combat the Emily...
I recently had a student ask me a profound question. After chugging along excitedly for a month on a first draft of a new screenplay, he had found himself paralyzed by a terrifying question:"What if it...
View ArticleThe Myth of Three Act Screenplay Structure (Or, Why Am I Lost in My Second...
For about as long as there have been screenwriting books, young writers have been taught that movies have a three act structure. Each act is viewed as 30 to 60 page chunk of the plot and when they're...
View ArticlePalms for Life Fund Launches Young Filmmakers' Competition to Document Hunger...
A new national film contest, Faces of Hunger in America, will award prizes to young filmmakers, 25 years of age and under, who document in their own communities the increasingly widespread problem of...
View ArticleUsing Theme to Develop Screenplay Structure - A Thematic and Structural...
One of the most common questions that come up for screenwriting students is about how to use theme to help develop the structure of your movie. The film "Drag Me To Hell" provides a great example of...
View ArticleOutline For a Screenplay - Writing an Outline For a Hollywood Screenplay by...
Writing a screenplay is a very complex process and will end up as a 100+ page document. So before you write it, it is very helpful to create a blueprint of what you are going to write, starting first...
View ArticleWriting Your Screenplay - Show Don't Tell by Susan Hart
As you sit down every day to work on your screenplay, the foremost thought in your mind should be -- write what is to be seen on the screen. There is no point in putting down "Her inner turmoil...
View ArticleHow to Write a Screenplay That Will Get Read by Jay Schillinger
So you have an idea for a movie? You just know it would be a big hit. All you need now is a good script. You remember that your friend has a buddy who knows someone who once sold a script to Disney....
View ArticleScreenplay Writing Tips For the Novice Screenwriter Susan Hart
The very first thing you must have in your head before you get started is a story. It can be about anything, but the concept must be attention getting or emotional, or action-packed. It can be fiction...
View ArticleHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Breaks Records
Warner Bros. Pictures' "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" has already shattered two box office records, first breaking the record for a midnight opening with $22.2 million, eclipsing the studio's...
View ArticleWeb Site to Become the New Industry Standard in Movie Reviews
A new industry standard for measuring and understanding movie reviews, Movie Review Intelligence, Inc. announces the launch of www.MovieReviewIntelligence.com, giving moviegoers and industry...
View ArticleSocial Media Changes the Face of Television
Reality Digital has indicated that the growing and ever changing world of social media and online video sharing is having a dramatic effect on modern television.Consumption of visual materials is...
View ArticleHow to Write a Successful Screenplay by Kal Bishop
First you have to get your head around the idea that there is really only one story. By that we mean this: every story you have ever seen or read is essentially an alternate situation superimposed,...
View ArticleHow to Avoid the ' Fatal Coincidence' When Writing a Screenplay by Melvyn Heyes
There are a large number of pitfalls you can make as a screenwriter, but few are as glaring and as easy to avoid as the: 'Fatal Coincidence'. I'm not talking about the coincidences that often start a...
View ArticleScreenwriting - 12 Rules to Get Your Screenplay Rejected Right Away by Ugur...
There is an art to getting your screenplays rejected right away. Do the following if you'd like to see your months and perhaps years worth of efforts go to the trash bin within 15 seconds or less.1)...
View ArticleA Call for Submissions From TV and Feature Writers
Starting its sixteen year, THE GUY HANKS & MARVIN MILLER SCREENWRITING PROGRAM aka The Cosby Program, will be accepting applications from July 15 to September 15, 2010. This program was established...
View ArticleTrancas International Films Signs SCRIPTXPERT Client Jeff York
SCRIPTXPERT client Jeff York is now signed with Trancas International Films who will not only manage his writing career, but has also hired him to adapt one of their projects. Trancas found York...
View ArticleHollywood Contacts - 5 Steps For Screenwriters to Make Connections and Keep...
By now someone has probably told you, "You gotta know someone to have a career in Hollywood." And that is actually true. Getting Hollywood contacts on your Rolodex is critical to any and every career...
View ArticleHow to Write a Treatment For a Hollywood Screenplay by Melody Jackson
When you are preparing to write a screenplay or even preparing to do a major rewrite, it is very helpful to create a blueprint or treatment of what you are going to write prior to actually writing or...
View ArticleLiterary Agents Vs Managers - 5 Tips For Deciding Which to Go With First by...
For most screenwriters, it can seem like the whole process of trying to sell your script is one big "Catch 22": You can't get certain producers to read your script without an agent or manager, but...
View ArticleA Writer's Most Dangerous Desire - And How to Combat it When You Write Your...
It may be hard to tell from some of the stuff you see coming out of Hollywood, but believe it or not, no one sets out to be a mediocre writer.No writer dreams of writing that crappy screenplay with the...
View ArticleScreenwriting - 5 Ways to Bring Your Script to Life Without Selling it to a...
One of the challenges of being a screenwriter is that fulfilling your goal is an all-or-nothing proposition. An actor can get small parts and work and see themselves on TV and in a movie, even if they...
View ArticleWriting Your Screenplay Without Expensive Software by Susan Hart
If the idea for a screenplay has been eating away at you for a while, but you lack the money to buy an expensive software program for your computer -- do not despair. Nothing more is needed than a...
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