Why does Pixar consistently put out quality movies while other studios churn out movies in a hit or miss...
Why does Pixar consistently put out quality movies while other studios churn out movies in a hit or miss...
There’s a big difference between great movies and bad ones. In a great movie, you can point to one...
Everyone has heard of horror stories of Hollywood butchering a script and turning something wonderful into a pile of...
Most screenwriters focus on creating a story from the hero’s point of view. However, you should also create that...
Thomas Edison reportedly went through 10,000 failed designs for the light bulb. When asked about so many failures, Edison...
Special effects are like cotton candy for the eyes. They look good and they grab an audience’s attention, but...
In most bad screenplays, the whole focus is on the hero and all the other characters exist solely to...
As screenwriters, we tend to look at a story from the author’s point of view. Step back a moment...
‘If you’re an aspiring screenwriter, you must watch movies, but you need to do more than that. You must...
It’s easy to find examples of great screenplays. “Citizen Kane,” “Casablanca,” “The Godfather.” However, it’s also easy to find...
What you see in a movie isn’t what was written. In fact, movies often cut out scenes that were...
Every movie tells a story and every story follows a basic structure known as the three Act structure. By...
First place winner in Scriptapalooza’s 2023 screenwriting competition for the supernatural horror screenplay titled “Nightmares From a Past Life”. Author of “The 15 Minute Movie Method”, “Story Starter”, and “Writing Scenes for Screenplays” in addition to over 50 computer books. Writer of “Three of a Kind”, a situation comedy produced by San Diego State University’s film class that won a student Emmy award. Designer of the board game “Orbit War”, published by Steve Jackson Games, that simulates satellite warfare in the near future.