Go Into The Story Week In Review: September 9-September 15, 2013
Links to the week’s most notable posts:
Daily Dialogue Theme for Next Week: Asking a favor
Declare Your Independents: Volume 9
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
Featurette: Short Term 12 writer-director Destin Cretton
GITS Interview: Daniel Turkewitz
Go On Your Own Quest, Week 9 — Prep: Outline: Yes or no?
Go On Your Own Quest, Week 9 — Prep: What techniques do you use to develop characters?
Go On Your Own Quest, Week 9 — Prep: How do you know when you are ready to type FADE IN?
Great Character: Tallahassee (Zombieland)
Great Scene: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Interview (Audio): Hannah Fidell (writer-director) and Will Brittain (actor), A Teacher
Interview (Video): Edgar Wright
Interview (Written): Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Movies You Made: “It Felt Good To Have This Pain”
Scene-Writing, Day 5: Write a chase scene involving means of conveyance other than automobiles
Scene-Writing, Day 6: Write a scene that ends with a cliffhanger
Scene-Writing, Day 7: Write an ordinary scene in an extraordinary location
Scene-Writing, Day 8: Write a visual-to-visual transition between two scenes
Scene-Writing, Day 9: Take a favorite film and add a scene that adds to the narrative
Screenwriting 101: James DiLapo
Screenwriting News (September 9-September 15, 2013)
Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 9(B): Possibility, Probability and Necessity
“The Origins and Formatting of Modern Screenplays” [Video]
The Quest 4-Day Writing Workshop — October 17–20, 2013, Santa Monica