January 2012
209 posts
December 2011
136 posts
3 tags
4 tags
2 tags
Michael Arndt Sprinkles Some Pixar Storycrafting... →
mgalla:
Great article on three-act story structure as it relates to Toy Story 3 by Michael Arndt (who also wrote Little Miss Sunshine). Check it out below. No matter how many times I review this stuff, I always like checking out a new take on it.
—————————
Stephen Hoover took notes at the Austin Film Festival when Michael Arndt spoke about cooking up Toy Story 3. This is manna from story...
“As an independent producer, everything begins with the material you’re working...”
– Nekisa Cooper, producer, “Pariah
4 tags
Music and Writing
Music is the soundtrack to our life.
Isn’t it funny how listening to a song from five months to five years ago can trigger a memory flashback? Music can sink into a our subconcious and it taps into areas of our creativity that we don’t always utilise.
I often to listen to film scores and soundtracks to get in the vein of a particular theme for a scene. If I need to write something...
2 tags
“It’s about being open to what the story gives you.”
– Joe Wright director of Atonement, Hanna and Pride and Prejudice
2 tags
5 tags
2 tags
2 tags
Report Card 2011: Indie Market Bounces Back With...
The WRAP has released its report card on the Independent film market and it’s been a better year than 2010. Last year the market was hit hard by the GFC and no one was buying films. This year things have looked decidedly more optimistic for all the main indie players, except Lionsgate who might have a better 2012 by all accounts.
One of the great things about the indie arena this year is...
3 tags
Mother Saves 44 Years Worth of Ornaments for Son...
From Gimundo a mother has saved 44 years of worth of ornaments for the son she gave away.
It’s stories like this that give me so many ideas for film. You could take elements of this true life story and run with it in so many directions. It just proves the idea that it is useful to peruse through articles and keep an ideas book. True life is often times greater than fiction.
Extract is...
3 tags
Hope You Like Synths: The Best Scores &... →
Indiewire has a great best of list for the outstanding scores and soundtracks of 2011. I actually have most of these on my current writing playlist, (or tracks from them at least,) so none of the list really surprises me.
My top five of the year (although it is hard)
— Jane Eyre 2011 — Attack the Block — The Artist — Hanna — Drive
2 tags
impromptufairytale:
Michael Bublé - It’s...
3 tags
1 tag
5 tags
3 tags
Guillermo Arriaga: Screenwriters Lecture →
Guillermo Arriga: One of the contemporary kings of non-linear narratives, Arriaga’s passion for the human condition runs through all his films, including Amores Perros, Babel and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.
Notes: This is a really lovely lecture that covers a lot about screenwriting in general. Character, dealing with notes, working with a non-linear structure and what it is to be a...
4 tags
“I was once with a great actor, I’m not going to say his name, and another great...”
–
Guillermo Arriaga, Screenwriters BAFTA Lecture - 2011 I just love this quote. It says so much. If you haven’t listened to or read his BAFTA lecture. Go and have a listen it’s worth the forty minutes of your time.
'Wolverine' pirate gets one year in federal prison... →
A New York man has been sentenced to one year in federal prison for illegally uploading an unfinished version of 20th Century Fox’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” one of the harshest punishments ever handed down for internet piracy.
Bronx resident Gilberto Sanchez was found guilty of uploading a nearly final “workprint” copy of the film in 2009 more than one month...
