Month: June 2015
Dennis O’Neil Discusses “The Crisis Of Infinite Superheroes”
by Dennis O’Neil
Cozy down on your couch and wait for it: A Supergirl series coming soon – well, in the fall – to a television set near you. And a new superhero on The Flash and what looks like some supering up of already existing character or characters on Arrow and and and…
I’ll bet the corridors of the media giants in Hollywood and New York (and Chicago? London?) are absolutely buzz with plans and proposals for more stories about that congregation who wear peculiar costumes and bash. I think they call it extending the franchise, and it is nothing new. My current favorite example from antiquity is the King Arthur saga which was kind of inspired by rales of a fifth or sixth century British ruler who fought Saxon invaders. (Did he really exist? Was he compounded of several rulers? Let us shrug and get on with it.)
Anyway, it wasn’t until the twelfth century that Arthur’s tales began to be written down and circulated, though some stuff may have been forever lost in the long gap between inspiration and dissemination. There have been adaptations and additions and redaction ever since. Almost certainly, somewhere on this green planet, someone is even now working on an Arthur piece.
Fleshing Out Your Characters
Yeah, really, ya gotta flesh out your characters, you know? Cuz skeletons are so…fashion model:
How to Flesh Out a Character
by Nathan Bransford
Great characters leap off the page and take up residence in our brains. Every quirk, every bit of dialogue, every small detail just reinforces their realness.
But anyone who has written a novel knows that creating characters like that is really, really hard.
If Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Got Reality TV Network Notes
Notes are the bane of the existence of everybody working in television, including those who write them. Today, the ever-perceptive reality TV producer known on the web as Jeez Jon tells us what it would be like to take part in the Not-So-Wonderful-World-of-Notes for the Disney classic BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
Writer’s note: The following contains spoilers for Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. If your nose is going to get bent out of shape regarding spoilers from a movie that came out in 1991, please up your dosage.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST RC2 NETWORK NOTES
Eyes on Me – Creating Power Dynamics Within Scenes
Writing for Actors – 2
by Diana Black
An actor, who shall remain nameless, used to get mighty shitty when more attention was paid to the co-star by the fandom. Well, we can’t all be ethereal and have pointed ears. So the gloves would come off on set with the star demanding greater screen time and if it wasn’t given from the Directorial pulpit, it would be taken anyway with slightly longer pauses mid-dialogue and/or a strong choice in terms of action.
Such tactics have limited currency – actors are there to serve the story and the Director’s bidding; supposedly. A fine line must be tread when pulling that trick if you don’t wish to be remembered as, shall we say, unprofessional. It is really up to the Director to determine how much an egotistical ‘eyes on me’ type, can get away with; if he or she has ‘the balls’.