Career Tips For Up-and-Coming Screenwriters by Drew Marke
Tips on what to do after you’ve made it onto the first rung of that elusive ladder… If you’re like me, you’re a newbie writer. You’ve won a screenwriting competition or you’ve been selected by a new writers scheme such as BBC Writers Room or the Channel Four Screenwriting Course. So now you may be […]
Script Angel in the City of Angels
Last weekend was the Screenwriters World Conference in L.A. It was a great opportunity for me and the 100s of writers attending to hear directly from the screenwriters, managers, agents and producers working in Hollywood today. There were many fabulous sessions on the craft of screenwriting; writing the spec, writing for tv, writing the micro-budget film, […]
Creating An Original TV Drama Series
We all know that writing a killer feature film script is hard but how about creating a pilot script for a drama series; something that will be compelling not just over an hour, or a series of hours, but over years? I’ve been working a lot recently with a couple of talented Script Angel clients […]
Creating Characters by Alan Flanagan
As part of the Script Angel Writer’s Toolbox series, writer and script editor Alan Flanagan looks at the tricky task of building your characters. Have you ever tried to be the most interesting person at a cocktail party? To look like the smartest person in your class? To make someone fall in love with you? […]
TV Drama Writers’ Festival – A Review by Kulvinder Gill (Part Two)
The TV Drama Writers’ Festival had 22 sessions scheduled. In Part One I reviewed Tony Jordan’s Keynote Speech, So You Want to Write a Feature? and Writers for Sale. In Part Two I review the following sessions: Drama on YouTube The Two Tones with Tony Hall & Tony Jordan Selling Your Idea New Markets: Do we still need […]
TV Drama Writers’ Festival 2014 – A Review by Kulvinder Gill (Part One)
This was the fifth TV Drama Writers’ Festival but the first one to be hosted in London. The first four festivals were held at the Leeds College of Music and were spread over two days – this time round, the venue was Central St Martins in Granary Square behind King’s Cross and it was a […]
The Bottled Water Tour of 2014 by Tony Lee
A very warm welcome to writer Tony Lee who is guest blogging this week on his experience as a Brit doing the meeting-rounds in L.A. So a couple of weeks ago I was in Los Angeles for an entire week, partly due to the fact that I was a guest at the Gallifrey One convention but […]
Can You Teach Screenwriting?
Guest Post by Anthony Povah A few eyebrows were raised recently when Hanif Kureshi summed-up creative writing courses as ‘a waste of time’ – especially given that he teaches one of them. Now, it’s not for me to argue with the revered novelist, but imagine if this attitude pervaded other professions: “Yes, the brain tumour is […]
5 Things I Learnt About Movies from The Oscars 2014
Here’s what I learnt from the Academy Awards 2014. 1) You CAN have a black lead character – 12 Years A Slave 2) You CAN have a female lead character – Gravity 3) You CAN have lead characters who are gay – Dallas Buyers Club 4) You CAN have lead characters who are over 60 – […]