Film Courage: What do you think makes a great director? Bruce Logan, Writer/Director/Cinematographer: Well for the longest time I was trying to discern what that was because if you go on the kind of sets I like where you see everybody working and you know the AD is shouting out all of the instructions and […]
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Film Courage: What is the formula for writing a bad story? Travis Seppala, Screenwriter/Author: I feel like there are many ways a story could go bad. *Not picking the right character to be the lead. I’ve definitely read scripts where the lead character is much less interesting than a secondary character in the script. It’s […]
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Film Courage: What suggestions do you have for screenwriters on developing a character? Evan Kidd, Filmmaker/Podcaster: You need to know what your character needs to achieve in your broader story. You also need to think Okay, what would happen if I spent time with this character? I always think of it that way. Anytime I […]
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Film Courage: What screenwriting skills are hard to learn but will pay off later down the line (and pay dividends)? Paul Joseph Gulino, Associate Professor at Chapman University Dodge College of Film and Media Arts: What will make you rich? Let me tell you…Actually in the last chapter of that new book I said How […]
Travis Seppala, Screenwriter/Author: Tip #2. Film Courage: Tip #2 — “There are only two screenwriting rules?” Travis: Yes, so I’ve got in my book here [365: A Year Of Screenwriting Tips] I’ve even got them labeled for you — Rule #1 is Write a script that looks like a script. Which I’ve already talked about, right? So if it […]
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Film Courage:What makes you great at story? Writer/Instructor and Script Consultant Shannan E. Johnson (The Professional Pen): That’s a good question What makes me great? Okay, what makes me great at story is that I understand story. And there is a difference between having an idea and having a story. I think a lot of […]
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Film Courage: You had a Tweet recently about action lines and it received lots of engagement. Can we start with what action lines are aimed to do? David Wappel, Screenwriter: Action lines are aimed to accomplish two things: Tell you what is happening; How we see what is happening. You can use words to sort […]
What Does A Producer Look For In A Screenplay? by Joey Travolta via FilmCourage.com
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Film Courage: We’d like to hear about your first day or week in the MFA screenwriting program. What topics were initially taught? Was everything an introduction to the courses? Marty Lang, Screenwriter/Director and Assistant Professor of Film at the University of Central Arkansas/Director: It was a little bit of both. The first semester we had […]
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Film Courage: If we were going to disassemble a great screenplay, take it apart and examine it, what would we find? Author and Chapman University Professor Paul Joseph Gulino: If we disassemble a great screenplay, try to reverse-engineer it and construct our own based on that what you would find it…let’s call them techniques or […]
Student & Young Filmmakers FEEDBACK Film & Screenplay Festival 