Tag: coverage
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If John Yorke gives us the architectural blueprint of the house, and Michael Hauge wires the psychological electricity behind the walls, Scott Myers answers the question that derails ninety percent of ensemble drafts: Who are all these other people cluttering up the living room, and why won’t they leave? One of the most common pitfalls…
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There is a very specific, agonizing sensation that every screenwriter knows: your plot is moving, scenes are firing on all cylinders, explosions or dramatic arguments are occurring right on schedule—and yet, the entire draft feels completely hollow. You’ve built a functional roller coaster, but nobody cares who is sitting in the cart. In early drafts,…
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Screenwriting books love formulas. If you’ve spent any time in the trenches of screenwriting forums or script manuals, you’ve been beaten over the head with the Three-Act Structure, the Save the Cat beat sheet, and the promise that if your protagonist doesn’t have an “All Is Lost” moment on precisely page 75, your script is…
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Screenwriting is a uniquely brutal craft. A novelist can meander through three pages of internal monologue about the smell of rain, and we call it literature. A screenwriter attempts that, and an assistant at a production company uses their title page as a coffee coaster before tossing the rest into the recycling bin. Screenplays aren’t…
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Hey, so, I wanted to show you just how effective my screenplay feedback tool that I’ve built can be. However, rather than use my own scripts (which I’ve done and it has been quite revealing – sometimes encouraging, always constructive) I thought I’d conduct an experiment with a well known, produced script. Joker If you…