Here at Script Gods I, your Humble Narrative, write every post with the firm understand that I don’t have all the answers. Want to invite disaster? Stand in front of a freshman class at Columbia College and pretend to have knowledge of something you don’t. Only takes one hand rising, and a voice behind it—“Ah, […]
Casting is WAY important for your movie. Duh. Casting the right actor could be 50-60% of eventual actor performance. Some say it counts 70-80%. Others venture it’s 90% of the battle. Duh and duh. The percentage doesn’t matter. Bottom line, the decisions made in casting will go a long way to deciding what the very […]
You just wrote a 100 page movie. You want to submit it to a production company, or an agency, or a management company, or screenwriting contest. You need to write a synopsis. No problem, it’s only a page. Wait a minute… you need to boil the whole 100 pages down into ONE page? Yep. If […]
Loglines terrorize new screenwriters, and I understand why. Summing up a 100-page screenplay in 25 words or less?! In a maximum of two sentences? Daaaamn! Somebody, tell me how I get my arms around this thing?! The internet is already crawling with logline advice from the 10,001 screenwriting websites, so without adding to the Same […]
As a teacher, the most valuable thing I have to offer any student is real world knowledge. In the world of screenwriting gurus it’s quite a more dangerous place than you’d imagine, insisting that the guy giving you notes has actually, you know, written a fucking movie. Lots and lots of pretenders out there with […]
