DAY 51 – BOX OFFICE AND THE VOW

This week’s box office once again shows us that not every movie needs a strong script in order to succeed. Really, seriously, ‘The Vow’! This could easily been my kind of movie, but it didn’t. The dialogue was flat and the characters did very little to fall in love. We all knew that they would [...]

DAY 39 – NAMING YOUR CHARACTER

I give a lot of thought into naming my main characters. The names I choose need to speak to me. They have to sound a certain way, and more often then not they need to have a certain meaning that translates into character behavior. For example in Witness [by the way, a great movie and [...]

DAY 34 – BUILD YOUR LIBRARY

I tend to read a lot, and always find it necessary to educate myself. That’s why I have aquired tons of books over the years; books about screenwriting, cinematography, directing, and film. Every book I read taught me something. You’re a writer, so build your library filled with books that interest you.

DAY 24 – TEN IDEAS

New scripts need new ideas, and at times that thought can be very scary. Can you come up with 10 ideas for your next scripts, novels, poems, paintings, and songs? It’s a wonderful and liberating feeling to know what to work on next. I have a little notebook where I write down all my ideas, [...]

DAY 18 – MORE MOVIES I LOVE!

Here are ten more: 1. Nottinghill 2. The Bourne Identity 3. Before Sunrise 4. Before Sunset [If you can watch 3 and 4 as one long movie… needs popcorn! And I give the last scene of Sunset the best ‘Last Scene Award’. 5. The Departed 6. The Shawshank Redemption 7. Out of Africa 8. Titanic [...]

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