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On Saturday October 2nd, I will be running this course, designed for both writers and script editors, with Adrian Mead’s company MeadKerr in Edinburgh. I hope to see you there!
A bit late in the day to report back about this but better late than never. On Thursday May 27th I was part of a panel discussion, along with Ceri
Running this website has given me a deep fasination into what makes a good ‘romcom’ as I have been sent several examples of the genre, some very good. It’s such
Here is information from Ceri Meyrick about how to apply for this year’s BBC Writer’s Academy. Good Luck! The next generation of TV writers are being sought by the BBC
I am running a one day intensive ‘Insider’s Guide To Script Editing’ course in Central London on Saturday April 10th, in association with Initialize Films. Guest speaker is writer PAUL
Here’s a link to a paper by the very aptly named American academic JAMES CUTTING which discusses the differences between our perception of film shots and scenes, and how we
FILM CRITICS Seeing the recent critical pasting received by the film The Boys Are Back made me think about how much we all rely on film critics to inform us
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/dec/01/research-tv-drama-csi Here’s a link to an interesting article from The Guardian. Some boffins try to apply a scientific \ mathematical approach to script analysis. Interesting how they quite successfully boil
London Film Festival – Studies in Narrative Structure Last week I went to 4 very different films at this year’s LFF, and they proved very inspiring and creatively energising. They
DAMIAN WAYLING INTERVIEW Damian is a writer whom I first met when he was on the Carlton new writers course some years ago. It was clear then that he had
