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| Conflict resolution The Jobbing Scriptwriter  A... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 10th 2010 GPOYW: Aloha Edition My cousin got married here in 2006.... Distractions GPOYW: Aloha Edition My cousin got married here in 2006. It’s also where Jack got married on LOST, and (one of) The King Kamehameha Clubs in Magnum PI. I don’t know what spells better luck for the young couple than those two.... [ Read more ] The Heart Is A Drum Machine Reel Artsy Christopher Pomerenke's new documentary offers a host of current top artists and scholars ruminating on the primal human need for and attraction to music. Includes thoughtful interviews with Modest Mouse's Issack Brock, Tool's Maynard James Keenan, KCRW's Nic Harcourt, Elijah Wood, Jason Schwartzman, Juliette Lewis, Wayne Coyne, Jason Schwartzman, Elijah Wood, Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT, Britt Daniel of Spoon, Juliette Lewis, John Frusciante, Maynard James Keenan, and more, all answering the question "What is Music?". The Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd wrote and performed the film’s original score and covered Elton John's "Rocket Man" with Maynard James Keenan on vocals!... [ Read more ] Sopranos Pilot Act Breaks Running With My Eyes Closed Friend of the blog Sébastien writes: I watched “The Sopranos” pilot five times and it’s driving me crazy : I can’t distinguish the act breaks! Well, I don’t know. Do you? I haven’t watched that episode in a very long time and don’t have it on hand to break down right this second, so I thought I’d turn to you for starters and see if anyone out there knows the answer. I suspect (but am talking off the top of my head) that The Sopranos, like many other HBO series, is written to a three act structure, not the contorted five or six act structure of commercial television. But that’s all I can contribute to this discussion without looking at the episode again… which I will do when I lay my hands on it. In the meantime, if anyone knows where the act breaks are in The Sopranos pilot or has a link to a break down of the episode, please share!... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 10th 2010 "Seven rules for writing fiction": Esther Freud Go Into The Story Several GITS readers emailed me about a great series The Guardian ran recently: Ten Rules For Writing Fiction. Today we feature Esther Freud:1 Cut out the metaphors and similes. In my first book I promised myself I wouldn't use any and I slipped up during a sunset in chapter 11. I still blush when I come across it.2 A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.3 Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more. What is left often springs into life.4 Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.5 Don't wait for inspiration. Discipline is the key.6 Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.7 Never forget, even your own rules are there to be broken.Anything on the list here today that catches your eye, gi... [ Read more ] The age of the "frequent moviegoer" Go Into The Story It's official: Worldwide Box Office Continues to Soar":Los Angeles – The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) today released its annual Theatrical Market Statistics Report for 2009. The report shows that global box office receipts reached an all time high of $29.9 billion, an increase of 7.6% over 2008 and almost 30% from 2005. The U.S./Canada market reached $10.6 billion, an increase of more than 10%, and International receipts increased 6.3% to $19.3 billion in 2009. The 3D market gave the U.S./Canada box office a boost accounting for 11% of the total compared to just 2% in 2008. With 20 films released in 3D compared to just eight in 2008, higher value entertainment contributed significantly to box office revenues. “While the motion picture industry continues to face tremendous challenges elsewhere in our business, we’re reminded again this year that the cinema is the heart and soul of our industry and it is thriving,” said Bob Pisano, Presiden... [ Read more ] "Film Industry by the Numbers" Go Into The Story Pretty pictures and numbers for you: "Film Industry by the Numbers":Any numbers that surprise you?... [ Read more ] [no title] deepstructure my friend ben hansford has finally released another episode of his tron reboot series. fun!... [ Read more ] Didja get that thing? Searching for your MacGuffin Cover My Script My sister, Spenser, and I go on the same highly anticipated adventure every time we’re together. We drive from our parents’ home in Connecticut into Manhattan for a quick, food hit-and-run on Original Ray’s on 9th between 23rd and 22nd and then on to Billy’s Bakery, half a block away between 22nd and 21st. It’s my favorite two blocks in Manhattan, next to Zabars and H&H. Mmm. Delicious! The drive usually takes us one hour and forty five minutes roundtrip to complete and then there’s forty five more minutes of scarfing pizza and cupcakes while we giggle. We are on a mission, specific solely unto us, which can only be satisfactorily concluded with that first bite of pizza and end with the last moist bite of a chocolate cupcake with vanilla frosting. Like Peewee and his bike, Citizen Kane and his Rosebud, Lt. Aldo Raine and his Nazi scalps, Spenser and I wanted something so much that it prompted us to act just to get it. That slice and cupcake, in the movie of our cross-s... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 10th 2010 Free ebook on building a creative career in the digital age Writing for Performance For a limited time, the Fans Friends and Followers e-book will be available for free download. It has already sold thousands of copies. "Fans, Friends & Followers is divided into three sections: an opening essay that lays out some of the “new rules” for using digital tools to build a fan base and an economically-viable creative career; a set of 30 interviews with filmmakers, musicians, writers, visual artists, and others who have been in the forefront of this revolution; and a “toolbox” at the end that explores the business models, sites, and services artists are using to build a solid foundation for their work."... [ Read more ] Do most agents and production companies expect you to provide coverage along with your submitted screenplay? SellingYourScreenplay.com Read 'Do most agents and production companies expect you to provide coverage along with your submitted screenplay?' at http://www.SellingYourScreenplay.com. I got this question recently: “Do most agents and production companies expect you to provide coverage along with your submitted screenplay?” As a writer you would never pay for “coverage” of your script. And if you did somehow [...]... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 10th 2010 MENTIONED ON THE OSCARS Red Right Hand I make no apologies for diggin' the hell out of this flick.... [ Read more ] On Making Independent Comics In 2010 warrenellis.com Kieron Gillen: We’ve been doing "Phonogram" for over 4 years, not including the years before the first series came out. Imagine if we could have just done the comic and not had to deal with any of the shit we’ve had to. We’d have been up to issue 44 now. Instead, we have 13 issues. I feel frustrated. Enormously lucky, sure, but frustrated. We’ve done this wonderful thing we’re crazy-proud about. But if the whole economic system was just a couple of degrees to the left, everything would have been different. I mean, just to give you an idea about narrow the margins are between what we are and what we could be, if we were selling 6K instead of 4K, we could have done those 44 issues. The difference between breaking even and actually being able to do it in comics is insane. It’s like being kept under ice, clawing. I feel like a bonsai plant.... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 10th 2010 Twenty-Two Days Until April Fools Story2.OH - Blog Get ready, the greatest holiday of the year is coming soon. Don't be caught out without a great prank to pull. Here's the first of the Hailey Hacks April Fools videos. Watch for another next week. <object height="344" width="425"><param></param><param></param><param></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HMOn6bBhAFc&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>... [ Read more ] SPINNING UP Red Right Hand Whenever I hear someone say "taking a break from writing," I kinda have to question the writer's passion for, you know, writing. Now, I understand that sometimes life gets int he way of writing. Jobs demand more of you than they have a right to, various crisis pop up and the brain is taxed beyond it's capacity to formulate fiction. However, if at all possible, keep it moving.I find that my brain is like an FTL drive. It takes time to spin them up, so if you've got jump in 33 minutes, you gotta keep them spinning. As such, I'm usually trying to figure out what the next thing is before the last thing is over. Keep the drive spinning. And one benefit of that is being creative, unexpectedly, on a deadline, including insane ones. It's come up twice in recent weeks.It was 3AM on a Saturday night/Sunday morning and I was about to pick up on page eighteen of a new pilot, but first some warm up web surfing. On the esteemed Paul Cornell's website, it was brought ot my attention that Big Finish,... [ Read more ] Screenwriting 101: David Seltzer Go Into The Story "I think if people try a few screenplays and they just fall apart in the middle, or people say, 'It was great until this happened or that happened,' then maybe they can read one of those [screenwriting] books, but there are not three acts in a screenplay. There may be seven, there may be two... I think it's a huge mistake. If you go in with formula, you come out with formula. The whole thrill of being a writer is to do a prototype every time out. And you can do it, something that nobody ever wrote before. If you confine yourself to three acts, you'll find yourself writing something you've seen already."-- David Seltzer (The Omen, Punchline)... [ Read more ] Lost Boy Daily Dojo of Joshua James So it’s happened, Corey Haim has passed away via an accidental overdose. He was 38. Sad, sad news (and who’d a thunk Corey Feldman would be the one who’d live longer) and a little bit of my youth just left with him … If you’re going to watch a Corey Haim movie this weekend, everyone [...]... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 10th 2010 Distribution and Deity Story2.OH - Blog Over at Advertising Age, Keith Richmond is writing about the importance of distribution in the next decade. His piece is called Is Content King? Then Distribution is Crown Prince, subtitled Great Content Does Not Mean It Will Find an Audience: In the next decade, we will see significant changes to the way that content is created, monetized and experienced. During the next few years, existing media players will begin to increasingly face the realities and challenges that those of us online have always dealt with -- an audience with a short attention span and a whole slew of viewing options. Sumner Redstone famously called content "king." Rupert Murdoch recently upgraded that to "Emperor." While there is certainly some truth to that when looking at online content -- see Hulu's rapid growth as an example -- there are far more cases where great content does not seem to matter at all. At the very least, I think it is fair to say that even if content is king online, then dis... [ Read more ] Twenty-two Days Until April Fools Running With My Eyes Closed Get ready, the greatest holiday of the year is coming soon. Don’t be caught out without a great prank to pull. Here’s the first of the Hailey Hacks April Fools videos. Watch for another next week.... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 10th 2010 New comedy drama web series coming soon - THE VERGE Story Gas - online drama and comedy links... plus lists of web shows Thanks to a comment left on What is storygas?"The series itself is a comedy/drama about James (a suit and tie office worker) who moves into a share house on a street named "The Verge". James quickly realises that he is the "normal" one in a house full of eccentric archetypes (stoner/drug dealer, promiscuous young uni student, closet case homosexual Goth, tyrannical law secretary), and due to events that lead him to live at "The Verge" he must accept his fate and become a member of the house.Our website (still under construction) is: www.go2theverge.tvHowever we do have a "teaser" up on youtube which gives an idea of what the series is about.I would be keen to get your feedback on whether or not it has the ingredients to become a successful webseries once it is up and running, cheers!So, what do you think? Leave a COMMENT by clicking on COMMENTS BELOW!THE VERGE SHOW HOME SITE HERE:-www.go2theverge.tvCome to the place where anything can happen in one of the craziest share houses in all... [ Read more ] Oscar winner Geoffrey Fletcher The WGGB blog - news and information for writers 'This time last year I was trying to get an agent' says American screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher speaking to an LA Times reporter in the clip below, having just won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for Precious (based on the novel Push by Sapphire). Fletcher is the first African American screenwriter to win an American Academy Award, and was largely overlooked in the run up to the ceremony, even in articles about the film.However, the most recent issue of Written By (the Writers Guild of America, West magazine) put him on the cover - you can read the interview and related editorial online. There's also a video interview on YouTube.... [ Read more ] CAPRICA 1.6 - "Know Thy Enemy" Dan's Media Digest WRITERS: Patrick Masset & John Zinman (story by Patrick Masset, John Zinman & Matthew Roberts) DIRECTOR: Michael Nankin GUEST CAST: James Marsters, Polly Walker, Brian Markinson, Alex Arsenault, Julius Chapple & Hiro Kanagawa[SPOILERS] A comedown after last week's gem, but "Know Thy Enemy" developed each storyline enough to make it a valued effort, particularly if you've found the Soldiers Of One plot annoyingly vague so far. There aren't many weeks left before Caprica goes on hiatus, and I senses this episode was laying foundation for its mid-season finale... It's been mentioned that Caprica loves duality, so it was great to see that theme continue with the arrival of a business adversary for Daniel (Eric Stoltz): Tauron rival Tomas Vergis (John Pyper-Ferguson), the man he stole a chip from to build his latest Cylon. Vergis has finally noticed this theft and plans to avenge Daniel's underhandedness by ruining his life and business. What makes this interesting is that we s... [ Read more ] Station Ident: Where In The World warrenellis.com You are not lost. This is Warren Ellis dotcom. (via Richard Kadrey)... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 10th 2010 Station Ident: Where In The World warrenellis.com You are not lost. This is Warren Ellis dotcom. (via Richard Kadrey)... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 10th 2010 Coming Soon: Ashes To Ashes, series 3 Dan's Media Digest It's nearly time to revisit the '80s again, as timeslip cop show Ashes To Ashes returns for its third series on BBC1. All the regulars are back for this final run, joined by Daniel Mays (The Street, Plus One) as Discipline & Complaints officer Jim Keats. The BBC press release doesn't offer many hints about what's in store (particularly regarding how they'll deal with the fantastic cliffhanger last year), but you do get to see Keeley Hawes' worst hairdo yet (see above). Oh, you gotta love the '80s... The press release doesn't confirm a timeslot, but I've heard Monday 22 March mentioned on the grapevine. That sounds very plausible, but take it with a pinch of salt. As usual, I'll be reviewing Ashes To Ashes every week as it reaches its conclusion. I'm intrigued by the creators' claim it will answer its own mysteries and demystify Life On Mars' finale, too. Is there a chance John Simm will return as Sam Tyler, as has been rumoured since Ashes first began?... [ Read more ] | |
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