by Adi Blotman | Nov 22, 2016 | Screenwriting Craft
It’s often said that screenplays are blueprints for a finished film. While this is a helpful analogy, I personally like to think of screenplays as more beautiful and emotive than a static sheet of paper. Before your screenplay is made, it is a literary work....
by Kathleen Cromie | Sep 9, 2016 | Screenwriting Craft
If you have a background in the arts or graphic design, you may already have a good understanding of “negative space” – the empty space around or between objects – and the role it can play in capturing audience attention. But what can negative...
by Valerie Kalfrin | Sep 6, 2016 | Screenwriting Craft
Bad narration is like watching a movie with someone chatting in the seat behind you, except you can’t turn around and tell him or her to be quiet. Narration, or voice-over, seems counterintuitive to film, which ideally speaks to us in action, images and dialogue....
by Valerie Kalfrin | Aug 22, 2016 | Screenwriting Craft
Action sequences can be tricky to write. Screenwriters often struggle to strike a balance between orienting the reader/viewer and directing the scene. So how do you hit that perfect middle ground? How do you find the art in writing action sequences? Writers with...
by Kathleen Cromie | Aug 18, 2016 | Screenwriting Craft
In our previous post on this topic, “Breaking History: How to Achieve Truth in Historical Storytelling” we covered one of the most common mistakes made in historical scripts: an unwillingness to change the details of an event to create a strong sense of...
