The Short Film Toolkit from BAFTA
Following its launch at Guru Live, BAFTA have joined forces with the BFI and British Council to produce a Short Film Toolkit for aspiring filmmakers. Whether you’re just starting out or already making waves in the industry, the Toolkit is there to demystify the extensive world of shorts and provide a comprehensive digital guide to […]
Co-development deal announced on Zia Holloway’s ‘Wayward’
Studio21, the C21-backed development producer, has partnered with UK prodco Fully Focused Productions to co-develop Wayward, a vibrant, magical-realistic drama that follows a community on the edge of destruction. Created by one of the UK’s most exciting emerging writers, Zia Holloway, Wayward is the story of the Morrow family, who live in the strange realm […]
Content London 2022 Industry Report
As the world’s leading development marketplace and conference, Content London has long been a highlight of the TV enthusiast’s calendar, with commissioners, producers and creators from across the globe converging to discuss the latest in international programming. This year’s three-day event kicked off with the annual Studio21 Drama Series Script Competition, which saw the six […]
Winners of Studio21 Script Competition 2022 announced
The winners of the Studio21 Script Competition have been announced. From the 21 shortlisted scripts, 6 finalists were selected to pitch their projects live at Content London, the prestigious annual TV industry event that attracts executives, producers and writers from around the world. In an echo of last year’s results, the judges decided to award […]
Studio21 drama script competition 2022 finalists named
Finalists have been announced in the Studio21 Drama Series Script Competition, designed to uncover the most exciting projects from the best new writers. The competition, which is organised by C21-backed development producer Studio21 in association with Content London, WritersRoom.net and Script Angel, is in its eighth edition and this year attracted more than 270 entries […]
Studio21 announces 2022 script competition shortlist
Studio21, the C21-backed fresh talent development producer, has announced the 21-strong shortlist of projects bidding for a £10,000 development prize through its annual Drama Series Script Competition. Script Angel was honoured to read and evaluate the hundreds of submissions received from some of the world’s most exciting emerging writers. The 21 longlisted projects are: Babython […]
Internal Goals in Screenwriting
The internal goals of your characters, their unconscious desires, are the hidden gems that provide your story with emotional weight. Unlike an external goal which is front and centre to the plot, the internal goals of your characters are typically hidden for some portion of your story, if not from the audience, then from the […]
External Goals in Screenwriting
The external goals of your characters are what drive plot and instigate events. These external goals are what your characters consciously want and are actively trying to achieve. If asked, your character should be able to describe their external goal to you. This doesn’t necessarily mean a character has to state their goal through dialogue […]
Raising Questions To Hook Your Audience
A great film or tv show keeps us watching and one of the main techniques you can use to achieve this is by continuously raising questions throughout your script. We stay with a story because we want to find out more, to know what happens next. It’s most obviously deployed in the genres that pose […]