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Screentalk #01 - Children of the Corn/Scrubs - Nov/Dec 2001
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Guy Magar's Children of the Corn Revelation - Writer/Director Guy Magar talks about Children of the Corn: Revelation - a $2 million suspense thriller based on Stephen King's original story. Magar's first film directing credits include Showdown, the cult thriller Retribution and dozens of television directing credits including ""La Femme Nikita,"" ""Sliders,"" ""Nowhere Man,"" ""Dark Avenger,"" ""Welcome to Paradox,"" ""The Young Riders,"" and ""Hunter.""
Scrubs and Spin City's Bill Lawrence - Bill Lawrence is one of Hollywood's funniest and most successful television writer/executive producers working on the set of his new NBC series, ""Scrubs.""
Structure Without Stress: Storyboarding For Screenwriters - In spite of all the theory that's drummed into our heads, for most of us, structure is something that comes after the fact.
Reader Roundtable - Part I - Enterting a scriptwriting contest? You might want to know what readers and administrators representing five international contests say about the process.
INTERVIEWS
Dynamic Duo: Sci-Fi Producers/Writers Marc and Elaine Zicree - The Zicrees have over 90 dramatic television script credits including such shows as the revival of ""Twilight Zone,"" ""Star Trek - The Next Generation,"" ""Deep Space Nine,"" ""Beauty and the Beast,"" ""Babylon 5,"" and ""Sliders.""
Dennis Palumbo - Script Doctor - Screenwriters...we're unhappy and self-defeating. Dennis Palumbo has made a career of discovering why, and how to help us help ourselves.
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The Essence of Theme: Or Is Your Screenplay Trying to Say Something? - Writers must enlighten...we must inspire. Theme is our opportunity to dramatize our deepest beliefs about human nature.
Every Picture Tells A Story - Can you understand your characters by their actions, reactions, and decisions? Movies are stories told in pictures. What are your pictures saying about your characters?
Coping With Rejection (Sorry, Not This Time) - ...And then September 11th happened, and suddenly my political bio-medical terrorist thriller was toast. Or are we propagating the repression of mind and soul like the Afghan Taliban?
Celluloid Oragami - Writing a screenplay without knowing how movies are made is like designing a car without knowing how to drive. Make your script lean for the screen.
My First Day at Animated Preschool - Do you think running a children's educational series is a snap? Running the PBS series ""Dragon Tales"" taught Jeffrey Scott some tough lessons.
High Concept - Why write a script with a simple, catchy idea, having an appealing one-liner that can be sold without lengthy explanations by Readers? Because they sell.
Breaking Through - Eva Peel gives writers the opportunity to pitch their story to producers, agents, managers, and studio executives, with the Spec Script Marketplace.
Developing Genre Appeal - Part III - ""It can't be that hard."" This attitude is cured when writers attempt to tell a story in a specific genre without taking three simple steps.
COLUMNS
Notes From the Edge: Follow the Money - Writing the Low Budget Screenplay - Studio pic = $60 mill. Your script = cheaper/better. Assuming Joe Studio likes your script, he wonders how much will this piece of shit cost?
From the Trenches: Truth, Half-Truth, & Television Truth - Part I - Make TV characters say and do things that make viewers feel the wonderment, truth and escape from their real life...then you've succeeded.
The Write Game: Braving the (Middle) Desert - First, get the audience interested, then, pay it off. But to maintain in the middle act, you must have 5 attributes to entertain and sell.
Evoking the Story Journey: The Cascade Effect - Paying the Price For Obscurity - A story's promise leads audiences to feel invested in a story's outcome, but when the story's promise fails, it creates the cascade effect.
Convergent Media: Digital Alchemy - The New Reality? Part I - To believe that technology could eliminate human actors seems preposterous. But, with CGI capabilities creating enhanced worlds and people, insiders tell us what to expect.
Screenwriter's Cafe: It Looked Like A Movie - We msut make sense of the new world after 9/11, and experience the feelings of characters as if wek now them, and are them.
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Shadow Magic - With no background in film, Ann Hu's determination inspires - she wrote and directed a complex period-piece film set in China, called Shadow Magic.
Teboho Mahlatsi: Portrait of a South African Filmmaker - Award winning filmmaker Teboho Mahlatsi makes ripples in South Africa's parliament with his controversial cultural phenomenon, the highly rated TV series ""Yizo Yizo.""
Living Up to the Hype - British writer/director Amy Jenkins' critically acclaimed BBC TV series ""This Life,"" changed British culture. Now she transitions to features and novels.
Screenplays in Germany: A Job Between Heaven and Hell - German international sale distributors claim that they have experienced a significant increase in foreign sales and co-productions over the past decade. Nowadays, Hollywood is paying attention to Europe, especially Germany.
Screentalk #01 - Children of the Corn/Scrubs - Nov/Dec 2001
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