Where to Submit TV Pilot Scripts
As an aspiring screenwriter, you’ve likely got your hands dirty with some spec scripts for practice and you’ve probably got some TV pilot scripts too. If you’ve managed to finish a TV pilot script, congratulations! Now, figuring out where to submit TV pilot scripts that you’ve managed to write is the next big task. After you’re […]
How to Use Syuzhet in Screenwriting
Before writing a screenplay, the writer will typically formulate a plan. The plan is an outline of events that includes the individual timeline. Upon which each of the key events of the story takes place. The writer is going to outline these events in chronological order, from beginning to end. But that’s certainly not how […]
Is Vertical Integration in the Film Industry Legal Again?
About a year ago a federal judge granted a motion to terminate the movie industry’s previous licensing rules which had been in effect since the 1940s and largely prevented any vertical integration in the film industry from occurring. So does this mean that vertical integration in the film industry will once again be legal? How […]
Censorship in Hollywood by Joseph Breen Production Code Czar
According to history books and of course to film historians Joseph Breen, was a production code czar who established powerful censorship. Which guided the film industry for the next two decades. Originally appointed by Will Hays to assist the film industry in censoring itself. The idea that if censorship’s done right? There would be no […]
How Much Does Piracy Cost the Film Industry?
Piracy is a growing problem in the film industry accounting for billions in lost revenue annually. According to recent studies, piracy is the absolute greatest threat to the United States motion picture industry accounting for losses through internet and hard goods piracy in the form of pirated content downloads as well as pirated DVD sales. […]
What is a Film Sequence Analysis and Why is it Important?
When you’re the spectator of a film, are you watching every scene with absolute purpose? Are you thinking about how each scene is feeding into the next. And driving home the overall message of the film? Probably not. But the filmmaker was and the editor was when they coordinated the sequence. And produced the final […]
What is a Formal Analysis in Film?
Various elements of film analysis are represented in any formal analysis that is mentioned throughout film study or the education of film students. In fact, writing a formal film analysis certain requires that the author examine a number of individual parts. And choices that are made in connection with the creation and ultimate production of […]
4 Different Types of Formal Film Analysis
The formal analysis of any film project is an integral concept that all filmmakers and aspiring producers should have a thorough understanding of. Examining the plentitude of lighting, sound, editing, transitional devices, and cinematic elements which go into the production of a film represents the essence of formal film analysis but certain types of formal […]
What are the Different Types of Film Theory?
The study of formal film analysis is an important concept that any filmmaker or aspiring production should consider. However there are several different types of film theory for approaching the concept of film analysis and formal representation. These approaches allow the spectator to perform formal investigation of individual elements of sound, editing, cinematography and mise-en-scene […]
What is Diegesis in Film?
When writing a screenplay, there are elements of the fictional world that is being created which will not be fully delivered on the screen. The screenwriter, and the filmmaker, must make relevant the fictional time, place, characters and events that are taking place within the story by building up what we know as diegesis in […]