One of the best places to hear interviews with top screenwriters is Jeff Goldsmith’s iTunes podcasts that are a part of the Creative Screenwriters Film Screen Series. Currently there are 99 interviews with various writers and directors and they are free.
Goldsmith is the senior editor of Creative Screenwriting and if you go to their website at www.creativescreenwriting.com [...]
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Pixar has made some classic films including Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Monsters, Inc. That made me wonder what the process was for writing a Pixar screenplay and I found this quote:
“The writing process at Pixar is very messy, very collaborative and very labor-intensive. Our films are discovered in the “rewriting.” All of our films are [...]
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With all this talk about the Internet, blogging, Twitter, webisodes, etc., I thought I’d mention something a little more…well, more human. I bought a new photography camera today that I need a job Monday and while I could a saved a few dollars by buying it online I bought it at a photography store that [...]
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I’m so behind the times. Just last month Southwest Airlines asked Twitter followers to help them write the first Southwest Airlines Script. Here are the results. (It’s not art, but remember that one of the first images caught on film in the 1890s was Fred Ott’s Sneeze.)
But now I’m catching up at http://twitter.com/scottwsmith_com
For a list [...]
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“The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter–it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
Mark Twain
Recently I came across the Miss Congeniality [...]
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They say that in this day and age you don’t hear about many people investing 30 years at a career with one company. Of course, that’s a two way street as not many companies seem to desire investing 30 years in an employee. That’s what makes Mark Zoradi’s journey all the compelling. He began working [...]
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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
Emily Dickinson
So last week I was sitting down at the Rio Hotel in [...]
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Every year when the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) meet in Vegas it’s a great time to get look at the latest, greatest production equipment. The big dogs like Sony, Panasonic and AVID have large impressive display areas. This year there were 1,600 companies and 900,000 square feet of exhibit space.
With only a few days [...]
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“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
Dorothy
“Digital downloads! Internet video-on-demand! This is the future!”
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One of the reoccurring themes of this blog is that big things can come from small places. Most people don’t normally connect Granville, Ohio to Hollywood because…well, because they’ve never heard of Granville, Ohio. But there is a small liberal arts college there that was founded in 1831 known as Dennison College that has produced [...]
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