WGA.org: Interviews with screenwriters
A good way to gain insight into the craft of screenwriting is to read or listen to interviews with working professionals. Thanks to the Web, you don’t have to live in LA or NYC to have access to such inside information. For instance, every week or so, at the Writers Guild of America’s website, they post an interview with a movie or TV writer. Their most recent interview is with Andrew Adamson, the writer-director who helped to bring Prince Caspian, the latest Narnia Chronicles book, to the silver screen:
“Well, this film was much more difficult to adapt than the previous one, largely because the book itself didn’t read as cinematically and was not so lean with structure. The last one was a pretty basic five-act structure that was pretty simple and easy to adapt to three acts, whereas this was a little less linear and wandered. So we had to put a significant amount of work into restructuring the story, which in turn, placed more demands on us, but I think in the end, we came up with a structure that is more interesting than that of the prior film.”
Bookmark this WGA site and visit every week to read interviews with the pros.