Screenwriting From Iowa

“To catch a character in trouble and to tell about it is the basis for almost any story.” Jesse Hill Ford H/T Dan O’Bannon’s Guide to Screenplay Structure Scott W. Smith Tagged: Jesse Hill Ford

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“Here it is. Our one shot to see a Veronica Mars movie happen. Kristen is in. I’m in. Let’s do it!” Rob Thomas on Kickstarter launch of The Veronica Mars Project What do you do if you can’t get your film project off the ground. Well, to borrow a Tiny Fey quote from yesterday’s post [...]

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“After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that’s where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests…In Chicago, I worked [...]

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The last couple of days I’ve been shooting a TV Travel project at Hammock Beach Resort in Palm Coast, Florida.  Here’s a screen grab one of the lifestyle sunrise shots yesterday of Orlando talent Alison Skipper from the penthouse overlooking the Atlantic. Scott W. Smith Tagged: Alison Skipper, Florida, Hammock Beach Resort, Palm Coast

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Will Smith and James Lassiter of Overbrook Entertainment and the ANA Alliance for Family Entertainment are supporting America’s Newest Screenwriter Contest which I’m passing on to you not only because of the Overbrook connection, or because of its two $5,000 cash prize (30-Minutes & 1 Hour Drama), but it’s free to enter. (Submissions end March, 21. 2013 and you [...]

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“The cheapest [Netflix] show is $3.8 million an episode. ‘House of Cards’ started at $4.5 million and (executive producer David) Fincher took it way above that…The next series is ‘Hemlock Grove’ and they’re doing that for about $4 million an episode. ‘Orange is the New Black’ is just under $4 million as well. They’re huge budgets [...]

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“One director I worked with was a particular influence, although I unfortunately can’t name him, as the re-write job I did for him was a non-public thing. He had a really interesting policy about minor characters – he believed that whatever function they are serving, you can usually do away with them entirely and find [...]

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“I would have said to Billy Wilder – and I thank God I knew him and I loved him – about The Apartment: ‘I’ll tell you what, there’s no way a guy in an ad agency who rents his apartment out to his boss to take hookers and other people is ever going to be a [...]

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“Write something unique that showcases your voice. Readers read so much – at times four or five scripts a day. So many of those scripts become one blob in your head – a singular voice. It’s the scripts that really strive to do something unique, whether it works or whether it doesn’t, that stick with [...]

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“Once I fell in love with screenwriting, I became a huge screenwriting nerd, so when a new spec was sold, I’d be dying to read it and get my hands on it.” Screenwriter Justin Kremer Since I spent a few days last week pulling quotes from Oscar-wining screenwriter Chris Terrio—with a dip into questioning the [...]

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