Found on the interwebs last week:
These are just two of the helpful “hints” posted on YouTube’s “Lessons from the Screenplay” channel. There are lots more, and we surprised and delighted by what we saw there. You will be too.
The creator of this series is Michael Tucker, and if you like what you see here and on his channel, you should consider visiting his Patreon channel and helping him meet his modest goal so he can give us even more good writing tips.
TV reality is really fiction. Ain’t no such thing as wingin’ it before the cameras anymore. Case in point:
Q: How do you write questions for some of TV’s hardest quizzes?
We’re almost there, folks. Almost to the actual shooting of your web series, with someone calling “action!” and “cut!” and good-looking people bringing your words to life. But we’ve got one more step: pulling together everything you’ve done and everything you’ve gotten during the first six steps of this process and making a plan of action. That’s right, it’s officially pre-production time.
Technically, most of what we’ve talked about so far in this column has been pre-production, since pre-production is literally everything that happens before a camera starts rolling. Semantics. Onward!
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If you don’t believe that an artist can be a poet via pictures, then you’ve never seen Grant Snider’s work. Check it out:
See what we mean? We really think you should spend some as much time as you can at Grant’s Incidental Comics. Look around. Enjoy. Buy a poster. Better yet, buy his new book!
William Shakespeare his very self writing a romance advice column? If that isn’t a high concept – for writer-viewers anyway – nothing is.
Can we say that this is “cute” without that sounding negative? Because Ask Will really is cute:
Find out more about Ask Will HERE