Script SocietyJan 4, 20194 minNailing the First 10 Pages of Your Screenplay.As a script consultant, I can generally gauge the quality of a screenplay based on how the first ten pages play out… And, in those opening pages, I can usual...
Script SocietyDec 28, 20185 minManipulate Your Audience With Dynamic CharactersThe plot sells the story, but the characters make it real. A great story means nothing if the audience is not interested or invested in the characters. This ...
Script SocietyNov 22, 20186 minCrafting the "Unlikeable" CharacterI have always believed that the most annoying word in the filmmaking lexicon is “likeable”. Likeable, in its most common context, refers to a character that ...
Script SocietyNov 1, 20185 minCrafting the Perfect RelationshipRick and Ilsa. Buzz and Woody. George Clooney and anyone. Three of the greatest and most fulfilling screen pairings in cinema history. Not by coincidence, ei...
Script SocietyAug 25, 20175 minCrafting the TV Drama LeadDon Draper, Frank Underwood, Olivia Pope. Complex, human characters that are also the leads of arguably some of the most popular television Dramas of the pas...
Script SocietyJul 21, 20176 min Constructing a TV EnsembleThey say two’s company, three’s a crowd and eighteen’s a DMV line. But there’s no denying that the ensemble cast has been a crucial part of the television fu...
Script SocietyApr 4, 20174 minCrafting Relationships: Love Outside the Norms“Love comes in many shapes and many sizes.” That, my friends, is a nonsense sentence giving an abstract concept an unnecessary physical component. But it is ...
Script SocietyMar 21, 20176 minThe Rom-Com PairingAs discussed in our recent article “Falling in Love with Settings”, romantic cinema is built on fantasy. Everything is ‘romanticized’; the setting is perfect...
