SCRIPT CONSULTANT COURSES Sept 14th 2012
Hi There, A bit more for your diaries in this week’s newsletter. “The Authoritative Guide To Writing And Selling A Great Screenplay” London Sept 22-23 A reminder that today FRIDAY is your last chance to book at the ‘early bird’ rate for our screenwriting course next weekend. From Saturday the price goes up from £197 […]
Script Consultant – Autumn Highlights 2012
Hi There, Finally back from a very enjoyable summer break in sunny Suffolk and visits to the Olympics and Paralympics either side of that, the batteries are feeling well and truly recharged for the onslaught of scripts that has already begun! In fact I’ve already read several very interesting projects since I’ve been back at […]
FEATURE FILM HIGHLIGHTS
Hi There, You may remember a couple of weeks ago I wrote about the best drama and comedy I’d been looking at in the last few months and I commented on the fact that not many of my highlights had been new feature films. Well, I had some very interesting responses and here are a […]
SCREENWRITING COURSE – GUEST BLOG
Hi There, In advance of our Sept 22-23 London course, this week I’m delighted to say that we have a special GUEST FEATURE. Two of the screenwriters from the last ‘Two Phils’ ‘Authoritative Guide To Writing And Selling A Great Screenplay’ course have been kind enough to write a feature on their experience of the […]
SCREENWRITING HIGHLIGHTS
Hi There, This week a random run-through of some of the best dramatic writing – whether in TV, film or theatre – that I have enjoyed in the last few months. TV INSIDE MEN – fantastic action thriller serial. Beautifully constructed and plotted. Predicated on a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards, this was a great […]
NEW SCREENWRITING COURSE + THE NEWSROOM
Tuesday saw the pilot episode of Aaron Sorkin’s THE NEWSROOM on Sky Atlantic. And what a treat it was – a wonderful piece of writing. A real achievement to pull off something of such scale and thematic ambition within about 4 interior sets – there wasn’t an exterior in the whole episode! The pre-credit sequence […]
Rom-Coms
Hi There, Prompted by the very sad death of that wonderful (Screen)writer NORA EPHRON, I’ve been thinking about ROM-COM’s and what makes successful rom-com’s. In my work as script consultant I receive and read a fair smattering of rom-com’s and they’re often among the scripts I enjoy most. It seems to me the structural uniqueness […]
Adrian Mead screenwriter \ director interview
Hi There, ADRIAN MEAD INTERVIEW This week’s newsletter is an interview with screenwriter \ director ADRIAN MEAD. I’ve known Adrian for quite a while, ever since I met him as a newbie writer who had written a great spec script – a series pilot called TWO BY TWO about a struggling family-run zoo. I was […]
TWO SCREENWRITING COURSES
Hi There, It’s been a full-on few weeks with my last two weekends filled by first the Channel 4 screenwriting course and then last weekend my two day screenwriting course, ‘The Authoritative Guide to Writing and Selling A Great Screenplay’ in London with screenwriter friend and colleague Phil Gladwin. Both weekends were thoroughly enjoyable and […]
TOP SCREENWRITING TIPS PART 2
Hi There, This week : Part 2 of your TOP SCREENWRITING TIPS. This past weekend was the 2nd weekend of the 2012 Channel 4 Screenwriting Course. In a weekend of readings and discussions of screenplays, so many of your tips came to mind. I’ll be writing more about this year’s course in a future newsletter. […]