nofilmschool.com brings us what should be a no-brainer but isn’t because writers. Thanks, doods!
Scholar Dr. Connie Shears and writer Paul Joseph Gulino believe so, and have created a Chapman University class around this subject, as well as an accompanying book, The Science of Screenwriting: The Neuroscience Behind Storytelling Strategies. The book took five years to write.
This is Paul Fucking Schrader, bitches. Do what he says!
In other words, this dood’s one of the masters of screenwriting. Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, etc. Definitely worth watching and listening to because, holy crap, kids, you’re gonna learn!
We always knew that there was a film making lifestyle, but we never realized there’s a website called filmlifestyle.com. And now you know it too.
Here’s an example of the kind of thing they’re up to over there:
Now there’s a question that means something to all of us here at TVWriter™. And there’s even sort of an answer. If you’re a TV or film writer and are into questionnaires, this is a don’t-miss opportunity:
You’ve finished a screenplay. But how do you know it’s “finished”? How do you reallyknow it’s ready to send to start sending out into the industry?
Anybody out there remember Penelope Spheeris? She was the intellectual director’s intellectual director. Cool, hip, tougher than tough.
A 70’s punk film movement pioneer, Ms. Spheeris (we wouldn’t dare pretend to be on a first name basis with a woman we feel great admiration for while also finding her – well, we find her terrifying, to be honest) directed the smash hit Wayne’s World in 1992, had her way with whatever properties she wanted after that, ands then vanished from Hollywood’s grace after the flop film Senseless in 1998.
Here’s how it went down: