SCREENWRITING LESSONS FROM EVENTS OF THE WEEK
Hi There, A mixed bag this week… What is DRAMA? If you wanted to learn how drama works there were two (non-fiction) events that I
Hi There, A mixed bag this week… What is DRAMA? If you wanted to learn how drama works there were two (non-fiction) events that I
Hi there, One of the things I often tell new writers is to read produced screenplays, to look at how the best, most experienced writers
Hi there, This is the fourth of my weekly newsletter \ blogs for 2012. BREAKING BAD \ BORGEN There’s nothing like watching a really good
STORY At the recent first weekend of this year’s Channel 4 screenwriting course, screenwriter & novelist RONAN BENNETT (Top Boy, Hidden, Rebel Heart, Public Enemies)
Watching the turgid ‘THE HOUR’ on BBC2 last night made me think about the state of current UK TV drama – I find myself in
A bit late in the day, some thoughts about activities generated through the website in 2010:- The main work I did last year was unquestionably
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,
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