This week we’re going to look at the A to Z making of my second web series, Devolve. Hopefully you can learn from each stage of pre-production, production, and post. Vamos! CASE STUDY: DEVOLVE I got involved with Devolve in the summer of 2014 and helped produce it in late January, 2015. But let’s start […]
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Hello Good Reader… Let us continue on with our impossible mission of making the dullest topic on earth– screenwriting format– somehow, some way, sexy. Soldiering on! ACTION LINES Keep it tight! Don’t overwrite! It’s all well and good to tell you this, but how many action lines is too many? Are there rules? Not really. […]
Every scene exists for a reason. When you outline, what you’re doing is writing out the scenes that are essential to telling your story. Presumably, when you finish your outline, every scene exists for a purpose. You’re ready to write the movie. Approach each new scene in this matter: What am I trying to accomplish in […]
Go to the wonderful Buzzfeed article from 2015, “129 of the most beautiful shots in movie history” and you won’t find those images. What you will find are lots of “The Image Is No Longer Available” notices. Fortunately, I did save some of them from this post five years ago. I wondered what the scripts […]
