Oh no! We mean, yay! We mean…well, we’ll have to see the new version of PROJECT GREENLIGHT when it returns to HBO after a hiatus of a decades. Will it really discover new filmmakers? Talented ones? Considering what came out of the original series, we’re doubtful.
But hope. We got miles and miles of hope.
Anyway, here’s the teaser:
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Took a longer than usual break after the most recent Advanced Online TV & Film Writing Workshop to recharge my batteries and get a haircut, but now the next, 152nd edition, is coming upon us next week. (That’s more workshops than Kentucky Derbies! Yikes!)
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When the reader (Campbell Scott) read dialogue, everything was cool. But when he read descriptions, exposition, and thoughts, everything ground to a halt with me.
Why?
The reading of dialogue generally takes place more or less in real time. But everything else – by necessity – takes far longer. If something we’re supposed to see is described, the description of it takes far longer than it would actually take for us to see it.