To paraphrase the Clint Eastwood character Dirty Harry, “A screenwriter’s gotta know his limitations.” And one of those limitations is how many characters you can really follow in a screenplay. We’ve all read screenplays where you have to flip back and forth in the script trying to keep track of characters. One antagonist and one [...]
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“The fact is, when I wrote Juno—and I think this is part of its charm and appeal—I didn’t know how to write a movie.” Diablo Cody If you took all the books on screenwriting and all the blogs on screenwriting—even those from produced screenwriters— and mashed them together you’d get some great lessons and great insights, [...]
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Jason Weinberger is the music director/conductor and artistic director of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orechestra (WCFSO) here in Iowa. We’ve worked on a couple of multimedia projects together and when he heard I was going to be shooting in Louisville a couple of weeks ago he gave me a short list of restaurants to try [...]
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“Daniel Boone, American folk hero and trail blazer was our mascot while developing Pilgrim Song. Not only is his name synonymous with the great outdoors, he also settled the land that is now known as the Commonwealth of Kentucky.” Writer/director Martha Stephens It would have been nice to be in Louisville next week instead of last [...]
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“This successful life we’re livin’s got us feudin’ Like the Hatfields and McCoys…” Luckenbach Texas Lyrics by Waylon Jennings The History Channel’s miniseries Hatfields & McCoys pulled in some big numbers in the last few days—more than 13 million viewers each night. As AP television writer David Bauder pointed out, “Those are huge numbers in [...]
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“I did not believe it was possible to be a woman playwright from Kentucky. The reason I thought this, was that in the early seventies, there weren’t any. There were writers, all right, wonderful writers, a few of them women, but those writers were all from the mountains. So naturally, I thought being an artist [...]
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Last week I spent the majority of my time on a video shoot in Louisville, Kentucky and it gave me the opportunity to learn about some heavy hitters from the area. Of course, Louisville Slugger baseball bats have been made in the area since the late 1800s and are a great icon of American craftsmanship. [...]
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly Blackbird (Lyrics by Lennon/McCartney) Today I was on the road after a three day video shoot in Louisville, Kentucky and found myself driving Seymour, Indiana for the second time this week. Today I decided to drive through town instead of just taken the Interstate bypass, and hunted [...]
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Most of you have probably never heard of writer Edward Eggleston or his most known novel The Hoosier Schoolmaster. Mostly because it was written in 1871. But how many writers have had a novel of their’s made into a movie three times? The Hoosier Schoolmaster films were produced in 1914, 1924 & 1935. Not bad [...]
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“Who’d want to live down there is the middle of nowhere?” Fly Over States/ Lyrics by Michael William Dulaney and Neil Thrasher It seemed more than fitting that on a brief lunch stop Monday in New Richmond, Indiana that when I walked into the Corner Cafe—where one of the scenes from Hoosiers was filmed—Jason Aldean’s song [...]
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