Screen Description. There’s the good kind, and the bad kind. How do you know the difference? When you jam your script up with bad detail you kill the reader’s eye. Attention wanders. The reader avoids the description, looking at the center column for the dialogue. They start thinking about grocery lists. Not good. They wonder […]
In the coming months you’ll be hearing more about CHAT, my micro-budget thriller, which we’re shooting in March/April. Seeking opinions on the script through three plus drafts (so far) leads me to the discussion of taking and giving notes. I’ve talked about this before, but perhaps my own travails will enlighten you, Good Reader. Or […]
The first time a character is seen, capitalize the name, whether they speak or not. If they are important characters give them a description. Characters do not get names unless they impact story. Limit the number of character names the reader must remember, at the top of movie especially. Only give names to characters that […]
Should you ever do it? C’mon… seriously? The answer is FUCK yeah. Let me bow to my betters, first some thoughts on the subject by Jim Jarmusch, appropriately stolen/borrowed from a pal’s Facebook entry: Please understand, I’m not advocating plagiarism. Plagiarists are stunningly UN-original. I’m advocating, like Jarmusch, something more akin to re-interpretation. Old school […]
Want to see something depressing? Look at this… Biography for Paul Peditto at IMDbPro » Trivia His play, “Never Come Morning” at the Prop Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 1995 Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for New Work. His adaptation of “1,001 Afternoons in Chicago,” at the Live Bait Theater and Prop Theatre Group was […]
