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Tag: Spec Scriptacular Contest
“Why I Make Films & Don’t Just Write Them”
by Hank Isaac
There is absolutely no way you can guarantee that someone listening to your pitch will see the same film in his head that you do. No way. Everyone comes with preconceived notions about most things. How can you possibly know what they are? Answer: You can’t.
A decade ago, I pitched a high-adventure aviation film featuring a young female protagonist. Five words into my pitch, the producer said, “Nah, that’s just like [name of film].” Well in fact, it was nothing like [name of film]. The only similarity was that the lead was a young female who happened to fly something at some point, and there were also other humans in the story. That’s it. And yet, the producer had categorized all films within that exceedingly narrow spectrum as “the same.” No, actually, “identical.”
It would have been easier to talk my way out of a Middle Eastern border dispute than to convince him otherwise.
The New Flesh
It seems like only yesterday that we were speaking about the horrific crisis of “Peak TV.” Oh, yeah, wait, it was. Anyway, not ones for letting tempests die before they’ve become magnificently raging storms, here’s another POV about TV’s current bumper crop:
Behold the New Flesh
by Jim Henshaw
It’s been a difficult Summer in Hollywood.
Now, the lead up to any new season is always fraught with uncertainty and concern. But there seems to be far more of it this time around.
6 Unusual Habits of Exceptionally Creative People
Sorry, but we can’t help ourselves. Lurve, lurve, lurve learning how to be better than we are. It’s the American Way, yeah?
by Travis Bradberry
I expend a huge amount of my time and energy writing books and articles and working to keep my company innovative. I’ve developed an obsession with some of history’s most creative minds in the hope that I might learn some tricks to expand my own creative productivity.
Some of the things I’ve learned are more useful than others, and some are simply too weird to try.
Writing the Character Profile
by Diana Black
In a previous article, The Creative Process, we concluded that a sound knowledge and understanding of creative writing principles along with a penchant for creativity, must be ‘in the room’ if we are to transform blank pages into a polished Teleplay. It must sparkle like a diamond amidst a pile of…..
Diamonds are tough, the hardest substance known – able to scratch any other substance, including metal. Graphite is one of the softest; so soft we can use it as a pencil and leave a stream of molecules sliding off onto the page in the form of words comprising the rough draft of our teleplay. Diamond and Graphite are pure substances comprised of only one element – Carbon. So how can this be?
It’s all about structure – more precisely, molecular structure. Both Diamond and Graphite are allotropes (forms) of Carbon. End of science lesson…almost.