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When I took a course in Screenwriting at my University, it began with a lot of talk about formatting, story structure, character, set-ups/pay-offs, and a million other topics that felt static and dry. As I would listen to my professor tell us about these “principles,” I used to wonder if what he was saying is…
Whenever you read any book on screenwriting or watch almost any YouTube channel you are often told the same thing over and over again. “Show, don’t tell”. “Don’t use voiceover.” The one that I have heard most of all though is “If you want to write a good character, he needs to have a good…
On November 17, David Fincher’s most recent movie, The Killer (I wonder what it’s about?), will be released to theatres. It has already received much attention at the New York Film Festival and received a three-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival, where the first showing debuted. Whenever you are trying to get good at doing…
The other night, I decided to watch Rain Man after close to a decade. It comes with my subscription to HBO Max, and I didn’t realize how effectively the movie began. It truly does an amazing job of conveying exposition in a way that feels natural. Within the first fifteen minutes, we learn so much about Charlie (Tom Cruise’s…
Just because you can write a novel or a short story doesn’t mean that you know how to write a script. I’m an officer for Kennesaw State’s Screenwriter’s Association, and I cannot tell you how many people I have met who love writing short stories when they enter the club but think that incredibly descriptive…
So recently, I decided that I wanted to write a feature-length (90-120 page) script about a kid from Tulsa, Oklahoma, which has forced me to do a TON of research. I’ve been looking at Google case studies, obtaining ethnographies from the school library, and as of today, I’m trying to obtain some ILL documents about…
When most people think of Barry Jenkin’s film Moonlight, they think to themselves, “Hey, wasn’t that the film that stole Best Picture from La La Land?” Giving people who have seen the Musical-Romance a bad taste in their mouths. But a lot of people have Moonlight all wrong. I love La La Land, and I was one of the…
After watching Oppenheimer for the first time, I thought about the movie for a while, trying to figure it out. I like to ask myself “Why does this Director feel like he needs to make this film now?” I was unsure for a while, but I’d like to write my theory here just for fun…
Why We Watch Movies: So, many times when we go to movie theatres, it’s to see the latest film that everyone has been talking about on social media or in our friend groups. The best example is the “Barbenheimer” trend. You’d go with a group of friends, maybe even dressed up as one of the…
This being my first post, I wanted to give y’all some content that could be useful to both my photographer and filmmaker friends out there. And for my first trick I’ll be talking about *drum roll please*… Lighting!! A lot of people underestimate how important it is to get lighting right. It can literally make…
The Fanatic Filmmaker 