How To Do Foreshadowing Right In Your Screenplay (Part 2)
Acceptance If you want to sell your audience on something that might go against character or be a bit outlandish foreshadowing is the way to go. In Bullet Train, there’s a highly venomous snake slithering through the storyline. Once we find out that snake venom from a Boomslang snake has caused an entire wedding party […]
How To Do Foreshadowing Right In Your Screenplay (Part 1)
“I know foreshadowing,” you’re thinking. It’s a simple enough concept. True. But maybe there are some things you don’t know about it or how best to use it. Techniques In its simplest form, foreshadowing is dropping hints about something that you will pay off later in a story. This is necessary for several […]
Creating Effective Pitch Decks (Part 2)
QUOTES/EXCERPTS: One page. Some dialog or narrative selections to give the reader a sense of the writing style works really well especially if the dialogue is superb. Comedies especially benefit from this because funny is funny in context or isolated. If I was pitching the TV show Wednesday I’d certainly include her lines here. At one point, […]
Creating Effective Pitch Decks (Part 1)
Pitch Decks (Pitch Documents) are one of those marketing tools that although viable have limited use for writers. But they are an important part of the total marketing package every writer should put together along with a logline and synopsis. So what are they exactly and why do we, how do we create them? […]
The Nature Of Conflict (Part 2)
MORAL IMPERATIVES AS CONFLICT Many war films, especially those about Vietnam, feature moral dilemmas that the characters have to face and deal with. Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Deerhunter for example, put characters in untenable situations of conflict between their duty and their conscience. In Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen’s character (Captain Benjamin Willard) is […]
