Daybreakers: What went wrong?
Last night some friends and I went to see the new movie Daybreakers. Honestly, I’m a little sick of vampires, but I wanted to see what they did with it.
Daybreakers is the vision of the Spierig brothers. With the 1940s style costuming and vampire friendly environment you feel like you’re seeing [...]
Categories: Reviews, art, film
Tagged: movies, screenwriting
Thoughts on the film The Answer Man by John Hindman: Fathers as theme and the Monomyth.
Categories: plotting, process, screenwriting, writing
Tagged: monomyth, storytellers, writing
OK, so technically, it’s probably not considered a Christmas movie, but I put it in my catalog of fun things to watch around Christmas time.
Here’s the original trailer:
Here’s some making of clips about the film’s birth:
Part 2
An excellent interview with the screenwriter Caroline Thompson:
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/olague_robert/caroline_thompson.php
I couldn’t find the original script, but I did find a [...]
Categories: film, screenwriting
Tagged: edward scissorhands, movies, screenwriting
[It should be noted that most of this is derived from work done by Michael Hauge's Screenwriting for Hollywood]. The character types and goals are his, the patterns are something I derived. The patterns are flexible and shouldn’t be considered an exhaustive resource.
The following are the most common external goals:
EG.A) Hero’s goal is to win [...]
Categories: writing
Tagged: screenwriting, the process, writing
This is the start of a mind map I’m working on. Its purpose is to help me make sure I’ve covered all the things I feel are important to get a complete story covered. This is a little too verbose for something like a short story, but would be ideal for a shorter novel or [...]
Categories: Uncategorized, writing
Tagged: screenwriting, the process, writing, writing resources
It’s the day before Thanksgiving. I should be getting ready to go to the day job where I’m fighting with my antique operating system to load a stupid service pack so I can get magic application development.
What have I been doing with myself lately?
Well, the novel was fail. Total fail. Why didn’t I just [...]
Categories: writing
Tagged: screenwriting, writing
This from Hitchcock by Francois Truffaut [originally found this on Mystery Man on Film's old blog]
“In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call ‘photographs of people talking.’ When we tell a story in cinema, we should resort to dialog only when it’s impossible to [...]
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Tagged: film, screenwriting
I had a great weekend at the David Farland workshop. I learned a lot about the publishing industry that I didn’t know or understand before. I now feel armed with a few more tools.
This is not a class for beginners. We went over the process of writing, a little, but most of the material we [...]
Categories: writing
Tagged: workshops
I’m excited about this weekend. I’m spending it in the company of best-selling author David Farland. I’m attending one of his workshops. This one is called “Write that Novel!” which seems pretty much perfect for me. I have totally stalled on War Dogs of Mars’ progress.
This looks like a comprehensive course. I’m going in [...]
Categories: writing
Of Melei, of Ulthar by Gord Sellar
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