If you follow me on Twitter, you probably already know that I went along to the London Comedy Writers’ Festival on the weekend to review the event for Step2InspireTV. If you don’t follow me on Twitter, this weekend I went along to the London Comedy Writers’ Festival on the weekend to review the event for Step2InspireTV. …
Short Film Structure: The Ending Part II
This week we’re back on short film structure. Still talking about the ending – the twist-less ending. It’s a popular theme in short film (or short stories) to have a twist (spoken about here) at the end of the film. Of course, not every short film has a twist – some have a naturally progressive ending …
Things I Learnt This Weekend – Southern Script Festival 2011
I can now tick Bournemouth off my ‘Places to see in the UK’ list. For those of you who don’t know, this weekend just gone was the Southern Script Festival (SSF) in Bournemouth. It was the very first one this year, held at Bournemouth Uni (famous for it’s screenwriting course, among other things) and organised by …
Short Film Structure: The Ending, Part 1- The Twist
We’re back on Short Film Structure this week, talking about the (arguably) most important part of ANY film: the ending. It’s often the endings which can make a film fall short. Poorly executed, they can leave your audience confused, annoyed and kind of like the person who misses out on a piece of birthday cake …
The Importance of Earnest Planning
Happy St Patrick’s Day everyone! I hope you’re all wearing a wonderful shade of green and drinking copious amounts of Guinness on the one day of the year it is most acceptable. This post today will have nothing to do with St Patrick’s Day – other than the fact that I’m wearing a green dress …
Short Film Structure: Characters
I started posting earlier this week about the structure of short films – something that is less discussed and talked about when creating films. I find this quite interesting as short films are a great way of getting your work out there – especially with great platforms such as YouTube and Vimeo kicking around on …
Short Film Structure: The Beginning
Happy Saturday everyone! I thought I’d kick off the weekend talking about what I’ve learnt about short film structure. Now, this doesn’t apply to every single short film ever made, but it’s what I’ve noticed about several short films that I really love and have tried to apply to my own shorts. I’ve decided to …
Comedy VS. Drama
Genre is a tricky beast to tackle. Each genre has its own pros and cons; its own rules and regulations. Genre writing is difficult enough for a 90 page feature film, let alone condensing those elements down into a 5 to 9 minute short film. To be honest, when I write, I don’t think too …
The Beginning Is The Best Place To Start.
The difficult thing about finding a beginning is deciding which beginning is most appropriate for the story. This blog is about a short film that I’m making, called ‘With A Little Help From Our Friends’. The beginning of that happened in September 2010, when I put pen to paper and started writing the script. But then, …