Sal, Your first experience at directing sounds great! Thanks so much for sharing the experience. I loved reading all the vivid details and hope you'll get a ...
Sounds too cool Sal. My Law Dog is trying to hash out a money deal for the movie I am trying to produce. What a pain in the Netherlands. I never could have ...
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This self-motivation article I found is excellent. For any writer that has problems with writers block this article will help you break through. This is the...
Very good article on the screenwriters for the new movie "The Butterfly Effect" This is the link - http://www.scriptologist.com/Magazine/News/news.html...
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Can anyone point me toward a script I can download that has good examples of effective ways to show the passage of time in order to tell some backstory?...or ...
you're basically asking whether to use a prologue or flashbacks. both can work well, if done artfully. three points to remember: 1. withhold backstory as long...
Sal Litvak
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Jan 25, 2004 8:33 pm
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Feb 6, 2004 11:54 pm
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Hi, I'm new here. Sort of working my way through some of the great yahoo writer's groups that are available and posting my introduction. I'm always open to...
Hi, I have a couple of screenplay format questions I was hoping folks could help me out with. First off, what's the correct way to introduce a flashback,...
i do put "flashback" in the slugline, but remember that the audience won't have the benefit of this marker. if you direct your film, you'll have various...
Salvador Litvak
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Feb 12, 2004 8:22 pm
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Hi Heather ... I treat FLASHBACKs the same as MONTAGEs for example: Dubya at his desk, Colin enters. COLIN We just let one of the houseboys go. Colin tosses a...
Hello all, I'm interested in doing a documentary film and have been trying to find information on government grants on the internet. The only thing i seem to...
Try this site: www.fromtheheartproductions.com JL you wrote: Hello all, I'm interested in doing a documentary film and have been trying to find information on...
The National Endowment for the Humanities offers filmmaking grants, as does the National Endowment for the Arts. You can just go directly TO the government,...
Visit my web page: http://www.studiostar.ca/filmfunding.html Scroll down to General. At least one of those sites lists grants available for documentaries. Sam ...
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Feb 19, 2004 9:29 pm
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Read this article on the screenplay for the movie "Underworld". There is a character development writing exercise at the end of the article -...
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Mar 2, 2004 10:45 pm
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This is the third article in the screenplay formatting series. You will learn how to create scene transitions in you're screenplay. This is a link to the...