Every year, San Diego hosts Comic-Con, a combination comic book, cartoon, science-fiction/fantasy convention that keeps growing every year. Hollywood loves coming to Comic-Con to preview their latest science fiction/fantasy movies and TV shows to gauge the crowd’s reaction, but lately, Hollywood has been less enthusiastic. The problem is that the crowds at Comic-Con tend to […]
Watching older movies can be interesting because you can see what used to work in the past and how older movies have changed from today’s movies. One of Alfred Hitchcock’s famous movies is “Vertigo,” which is about a police detective who suffers from the fear of heights. The basic storyline is still interesting all these […]
The truth is usually pretty dull. When people write a story based on the truth, they often try to cram so many facts into the story that have no relevance that the story suffers as a result. Back in 1985, I worked as an extra in a bad Vietnam War movie called “The Hanoi Hilton.” […]
There are millions of ways to tell a story. However, the two extremes are focusing on a single story or focusing on multiple stories that combine to create a single story. In the old days, movies and TV shows focused on a single event, such as a murder. Then the story focused solely on the […]
A logline is a one or two sentence that summarizes the story. You need a logline to create a compelling story, so take a look at some loglines of the latest movies. Before anyone will even consider your screenplay, they’ll want to know a brief summary of what it’s about. This brief summary is called […]