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What are the best Christopher Nolan scripts to read?
What are the best Christopher Nolan scripts to read?
As AI creeps further into Hollywood, screenwriters like Billy Ray, Paul Schrader, Bong Joon Ho and Todd Haynes, along with a new class of tech disruptors, are navigating the uncertain future of storytelling.
Happy Wednesday, Creative Army! There are moments in this business when everything changes. Today is one of those moments. With the recent announcement that Coverfly is shutting down on August 1st, and after their prior closure of Industry Arts platforms, we knew thousands of screenwriters around the world were going to be left without a clear path to discover contests, get professional feedback, and get discovered. So we stepped up. As announced on Deadline, I’m incredibly proud to sh
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Unlike a typical text or Word document, a screenplay needs to adhere to film and television standards and be formatted in a specific way. This is why most screenwriters — beginner and professional — use screenwriting software, which automatically formats your writing to these industry standards.Final Draft is the top-selling screenwriting software and the industry standard, and it makes the screenwriting process easy and enjoyable. If you want to learn how to use Final Draft, this is the f
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Film Courage: If we were going to disassemble a great screenplay, take it apart and examine it, what would we find?
To the average person, screenwriting and playwriting may seem like interchangeable terms, with the only difference in their eyes being that a screenwriter is writing for the movies while a playwright is writing for the stage. The truth is that the two mediums are vastly different in so many ways, despite sharing the core purpose of telling compelling stories with a cast of characters.While each shares that same goal, the method, techniques, and format used to do so is very different.Here w
The opening scene or sequence is perhaps the most important element of a screenplay, especially when it comes to beginning screenwriters trying to break into the industry. It’s the moment where an experienced industry insider reading your script can and will pass near-instant judgment on your screenplay, your story, and your writing. Because of this undeniable truth, you want to make sure you:
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11 Character Archetypes in Film Noir Movies | No Film SchoolSome of my favorite noirs are Double Indemnity, The Maltese Falcon, The Third Man, and many, many more. I actually really like Sniper and The Killer Who Stalked New York , both of which I caught for the first time this week.With all the movies I watched, I wanted to go through the characters I kept seeing over and over again.The Hard-Boiled Detective:In classics, it's always a guy. But it would be a fun gender swap person. They're a wor
Take Your Screenwriting to the Next Level with AI-Powered IdeasUsing AI text completion tools like OpenAI’s GPT-3 for idea generation and plot/character inspirationGoodbye Writer’s Block!Thanks to AI generation of images and text, we’re always just one prompt away from a new list of ideas to help us find a creative solution to problems we may have been stuck on for days!There are plenty of AI text-generation tools out there but none of them will just magically create stories for you. I
“I think that’s what the first ten pages have to do: give you a character you’re connected to, to move through this world with.”
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