Steven Hammon’s short film “Charity” has been entered in the current Yourindiefilm online competition. “To avoid being bashed, a shifty con-artist wants to borrow money from his friend who just won a heap of cash, but that friend gave it all away to charity.” Note the OFF SCREEN telephone performance, and stay for the credits.
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Over at the Observations on Film Art site, Kristin Thompson mentioned several worthy “making of” DVD supplements that discuss special effects.
“… Careful calculations allow for over-sized sets in the background to be lined up precisely with normal-scale ones in the foreground, so that the foreground person looks much larger then the background one. Since the […]

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Don Macnab-Stark has been hired by Norwegian writer-producer Martin Molenda to rewrite a horror screenplay to be filmed next year.
More details at Screenwriting BUZZ …

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ProSeries alumnus Joshua Durkin, together with director Daric Gates, has secured partial funding for the upcoming feature film “Dead Cat Bounce.”
Joshua also recently completed a writing assignment on an urban thriller being produced by Terrence Levi of Streetlife Worldwide Entertainment.
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“This is an important post. I say that because this piece addresses (after procrastination, which is the #1 champ), the single greatest excuse/reason/cop-out that prevents aspiring writers, artists and entrepreneurs from taking action to pursue their dreams….”
Go to Steven Pressfield’s place …

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Another screenplay from Paul Myerberg has been named a winner in The Scriptwriters Network Hollywood Outreach Program. “Trust Me Not” ia a female-driven thriller in which a thirty-something woman must use every skill she has to survive being trapped in a snow storm with two psychotic fugitives.
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“One of the things with which I struggle is expressing the character’s stakes.  How does one show the character’s motive? This is ultra important because it’s the reason the character really goes on the journey….”
Go to Snark E. Snarky’s place …

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Over at Coverage, Ink/Writers on the Storm, Jim Cirile interviewed Jason Scoggins (lifeonthebubble.com, itsonthegrid.com).
“… (A) ray of hope for new writers who aren’t necessarily on the open writing assignment list or haven’t had a huge spec sell before — there remains an appetite with development executives to find new writers, to read new voices and […]

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“After months of practicing, Caryl thinks she’s finally ready… and challenges master speed-cuber, Nabu, to a Rubik’s cube-off.”
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“… Protagonists, be they villainous or heroic, don’t need to be sympathetic.  They need to be fascinating.  Establishing empathy (i.e. we can see something of ourselves in them, however disagreeable) is certainly vital, but wasting precious screen time on her daddy never loved her or kids used to beat him up during recess, etc. — […]

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“… DO give away the story. DON’T be vague.
“This one is important. Too many loglines go like this:
“‘A confused bride returns to her hometown to resolve the biggest issue in her life — how she got married.’
“Do you have any idea what happens in that story? I don’t. It is vague and leaves us confused.
“Usually, […]

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“… To the storyteller, the characters in his tale are not fiction. They’re real. They’re fun. He’d rather hang with them than with just about anybody. Their antics entertain him; their preoccupations are his as well. They teach him and inspire him—and they help him discover who he is….”
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“… Probably close to 3 years ago, a hot script by Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris called NOTTINGHAM went out to buyers. The script was the Robin Hood story told from the Sheriff of Nottingham’s point of view - as he used period ‘forensics’, like tracking and arrow trajectory, to find a terrorist who was […]

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“… If you’re in the market for a traditional Iowa farmhouse with a white picket fence, 193 acres, a two car garage and one baseball field used in the movie Field of Dreams—you’re in luck. Yesterday, it was announced that the field of dreams was for sale for $5.4 million….”
Go to Scott W. Smith’s place […]

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“… One of the first shoots I was ever on and I was ready and eager to prove myself worthy of this industry. I may have been pretty green and inexperienced back then, but I told myself that I’d make up for it with hard work and speed. One day, something was called for from […]

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