The below is a guest essay by Jennine Lanouette, Founder and Chief Content Creator at Screentakes Digital Publishing, who is currently in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign for a line of media rich ...

Poor old three-act structure. It gets hammered away at, like an old punching bag, every time someone wants to challenge the primacy of the formulaic Hollywood screenwriting methods. “Take that! You ...

Get your screenplay idea out of the coffee shop and get into this three-hour intensive course with successful script doctor Jill Chamberlain, who will teach the noted "Nutshell technique" to get to ...

Writing a movie is hard work. Using AI screenwriting tools is not. I put three such tools to the test to see what kind of tales a machine could weave. I’ve been freelancing as a tech journalist for ...

L.A.-based filmmaker Noam Kroll is currently working on his second feature. He keeps a production blog at his website NoamKroll.com. In this blog post, he writes about focusing on characters in order ...

A screenplay is the written version of a film or an episode of television. Simple, right? Wrong. Unlike a completed work, such as a novel or a short story, a screenplay is the first in a long series ...

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