All posts by: paul peditto

About paul peditto

This from the guy who wrote Confessions of an Eclair-Eater… From the guy who hasn’t wedged into a size 38 in 15 years… Who walked out on Benjamin Button for Paul Blart, Mall Cop… I like fat guys…they make me laugh. Fat guy humor has been around forever, unlike the YouTube superstars humor of watching […]

OK, film school is in session… Thanks to Simply Scripts for assembling The Writer’s Guild Top 101 Screenplays of all time. When you think about free screenplay resources, you think Drew’s Script-O-Rama, you think IMSDB. But Simply Scripts offers something in one click I don’t see on either of these. Go to Simply Scripts, hit […]

The Montage

December 20, 2015 0 Comment

“Montage is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information. The term has been used in various contexts. It was introduced to cinema primarily by Eisenstein and early Soviet directors used it as a synonym for creative editing. In France […]

At the risk of stealing Carl Sagan’s most famous riff,  I have combed the “BILLIONS AND BILLIONS” of Internet cosmococcic screenwriting sites for another batch of Screenwriting and Filmmaking resources. More will follow, but these are pretty good. I hope they help you, Good Reader. There’s a ton of great, free stuff out there, if […]

Action Line POV 2

November 30, 2015 0 Comment

We recently went over Action Line POV looking at My Best Friend’s Wedding. How do the pros infuse their own personality into action lines? Remember, action lines are supposed to be what the camera is seeing now. The pros cheat this, big time. They infuse the objective with the subjective–meaning their own writing style. With […]