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 […]
This article is dedicated to my brother Chris, and his 17+ year Don Quixote’s journey to make Black Wings Has My Angel. I’ve kept it in a metal box buried in the backyard because for seven years because my brother refused to allow its publication, but the time is finally right. Radioactive half-life, attained. Even […]
“Physical comedy is a form of comedy focused on manipulation of the body for a humorous effect. It can include slapstick, clowning, mime, physical stunts, or making funny faces.[1] Physical comedy originated as part of the Commedia dell’arte.[2] “–WIKIPEDIA This is a screenwriting blog. But sometimes the laugh isn’t in dialogue. Sometimes actor business steals the scene. It’s in a piece of physical […]
