Category: Thoughts on Screenwriting

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

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

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

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.

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

Thinking about the best screen drama I saw in 2008, The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall was somewhere at the top of the list. Soon after

On July 2nd  I spent a day at the Cheltenham Screenwriters Festival, publicising the website and being on the panel for a session on ‘Showrunning’

The Script Consultant’s Role As a writer one feels a huge sense of satisfaction getting to the end of that first draft having wrestled and

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