Film Critics
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
February 25, 2010
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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
Just a quick one to recommend ( a bit late in the day) the current BBC series ‘The Street’. For me, these shows are object lessons in top-quality dramatic story-telling.
Two really interesting articles, one recent, one not so recent. Firstly, an excellent article by US screenwriter SHANE BLACK from last week’s Guardian, with tips on how to write an
www.script-consultant.co.uk has just passed its first anniversary and I thought I’d briefly reflect on the first year. Above all, it’s been a lot of fun. Generally speaking I’ve read a
Some more recommended books about screen-writing that may be of interest:- The Pitch by Eileen Quinn & Judy Counihan As far as I’m aware the only UK book specifically about
There are a whole host of screenwriting books on the market and their usefulness (or not) to writers is an interesting question. There’s undoubtedly a place for the best of
A little while ago I went to a screenwriting talk in London. It was run by a US screenwriter, and it was about STRUCTURE. The screenwriter turned out to be