Go Into The Story Week In Review: September 30-October 6, 2013
Links to the week’s most notable posts:
13 Low Budget Movies That Made Millions
Audio Q&A: Jayne Mansfield’s Car
Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Assassination
Declare Your Independents: Volume 12
Dialogue as “character communication”
Dispatch From The Quest: Waka Brown
Dispatch From The Quest: Christian Fontenot
Dispatch From The Quest: Troy Klith
Dispatch From The Quest: Sandy Leviton
Dispatch From The Quest: Miranda Sajdak
Dispatch From The Quest: Paul Wie
“Gamechanger Films” Launches to Exclusively Finance Women-Directed Feature Films
Go On Your Own Quest, Week 12 — Does the Protagonist go through a metamorphosis?
Go On Your Own Quest, Week 12 — What is your Protagonist’s flaw?
Go On Your Own Quest, Week 12 — Why does this story have to happen to your Protagonist at this time?
Go On Your Own Quest, Week 12 — Is your Protagonist actively pursuing a goal?
Go On Your Own Quest, Week 12 — Why will a script reader care about your Protagonist?
Great Character: Frank (Donnie Darko)
Hidden Movie Gem: Adam and Paul
Hidden Movie Gem: Ball of Fire
Hidden Movie Gem: The Missionary
Hidden Movie Gem: Round Midnight
Interview (Audio): Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said)
Interview (Video): Brian Helgeland
Interview (Written): Peter Morgan
Scene-Writing, Day 20: Write an opening scene
Screenwriting 101: Scott Derrickson
Screenwriting News (September 30-October 6, 2013)
Script To Screen: Five Easy Pieces
Spec Script Sale: “The Unsacred”
Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 10: Simple and Complex Plots