Even with the rise of the Coronavirus the film industry has shown growth in terms of popularity and profits. With the increasing use of OTT platforms, filmmakers have been able to deliver quality content for their viewers. The most underrated and barely recognised reason behind this success is Blogging. Yes you read that absolutely right. […]
Filmmaking is a brilliant industry – it takes the mundane and makes it magical. Yet underneath all this glitz and glamor, there’s a seedy side – its environmental impact. The Conversation reveals several real-world effects still being felt today in natural environments due to unsustainable filmmaking. It’s easy to mistake the depth of the impact […]
Screenwriting competitions can be a brutal introduction to film industry fickleness. That’s half their value. You may believe that you and you alone have cracked the code of writing that one-in-a-million spec script, but entering a script competition is a direct way to discover that, yes, there are other screenwriters out there and even – […]
Acme, Weyland Corp, Wonka Chocolate, Cyberdine Systems, Buy N Large, The Big Kahuna Burger, OfCom – what do all these brands have in common? Aside from being iconic and even having their revenues ranked by Forbes none of them actually exist. Can you name the films they feature in? Most of you probably can name […]
When the pandemic first hit, people of all ages found themselves stranded at home unable to participate in any activities. Kids found themselves logging onto Fortnite dozens of times a day while adults found themselves streaming Netflix much more often than they should be. However, the pandemic shined light to an opportunity that I never […]
According to stats from the Writers Guild of America, there are approximately 50,000 screenplays submitted for registration each year. How few of these are interesting screenplays? Film producers consistently complain about the lack of entertaining screenplays. A script that’s neither provocative nor engaging is the number one barrier to a successful screenwriting career. Does this […]
Writing characters is the essential skill for any author. Whatever medium you are writing in- short film, feature film, television, theatre, novel – a compelling, engaging character is the best way to get into the story, both for the audience and for the writer. It may seem that there is always an element of mystery […]
A favourite film school phrase is “develop your audience profile.” It’s a staggering question to face especially if like me you have never ever been to film school. What do you mean by ‘developing an audience profile? One way to look at screenwriting (and filmmaking) is that you are developing a product just like any […]
Hollywood has always been in love with portraying its own process of creation. Picking a random 1988 example, viewers of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? see the cartoon lead working on the fictious cartoon Somethin’s Cookin’. Later, Schwarzenegger’s alterego Jack Slater in early-90s comedy-action Last Action Hero takes on the role of one of Shakespeare’s greatest […]
Many people have a romanticized idea of what filmmaking is like. Most people think automatically of an actor on location or on a set, and a director in a tall chair, calling the shots. The truth is that while filming is an important part of filmmaking, it is also a very small part of filmmaking. […]
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