Movies – Page 8 – ETB Screenwriting

Film Adaptation with Michael Ondaatje

Film (apart from the adapted novel) must become something quite distinct, with its own DNA.

Here are three key take-aways from a workshop in Norway about common issues that make a film project less effective and less emotionally compelling.

#ThinkpieceThursday – The Hunger Games has great characters and a Power of Truth story structure- an unbeatable combination.

How to Evaluate Stories is a great little guide to finding story problems and fixing them fast!

April 2012 Master Class in Bergen Norway

Some books just don’t make good movies, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a prime example.

I found the film predictable, lacking in character development, with a script that continually tells us rather than shows us.

Writer-director Michael Hazanavicius is one of the rare filmmaker-artists whose pictures are worth a thousand words.

Characters that exist to advance a plot tell us nothing about the human condition.

#WritingAdviceWednesday – I’ve distilled everything I know about story analysis into a short eBook.