Pictorial journey through Bergen while there presenting a workshop.
Tag: Script
#ThinkpieceThursday – The Hunger Games & Twilight
#ThinkpieceThursday – The Hunger Games has great characters and a Power of Truth story structure- an unbeatable combination.
How to Evaluate Stories
This concise checklist of questions and examples helps writers, producers, editors, publishers, and development executives quickly zero in on key story problems. It reveals what’s missing in any problematic plot. Find what’s wrong and fix it fast! Laurie Hutzler’s handy primer is the result of ten years of teaching at the UCLA Film School and… Continue reading How to Evaluate Stories
How to Evaluate Stories
How to Evaluate Stories is a great little guide to finding story problems and fixing them fast!
Writing Rules from Kurt Vonnegut
Story rules from a master.
Workshops & Consulting in Norway
April 2012 Master Class in Bergen Norway
#ThinkpieceThursday – The Role of Impulse in Creating Three Dimensional Characters
#ThinkpieceThursday – A character’s Immediate Response is where the character goes first emotionally.
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Some books just don’t make good movies, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a prime example.
The Descendants
I found the film predictable, lacking in character development, with a script that continually tells us rather than shows us.
The Artist
Writer-director Michael Hazanavicius is one of the rare filmmaker-artists whose pictures are worth a thousand words.