Do you know McSweeney’s? No? What a pity, becuase McSweeney’s is a fantastic publisher based in San Francisco. They publish books (Books & Quaterly), magazines (The Believer) and a DVD edition (Wholphin DVD) and they do a lot of awesome stuff on the internet. But what did I actually want to say? Ah, yes. Now they published an article about …
Screenwriting 101
You might already know the website GO INTO THE STORY by Scott Myers (if you don’t, please check it out, there is tons of useful stuff for aspiring and advanced screenwriters). There are lots of different categories, and one I find especially interesting is called SCREENWRITING 101. Here is a quote from writer Carl Foreman (HIGH NOON) and it starts …
Trailerwatch: REVOLUTION
A few days ago I saw the trailer for REVOLUTION, a new series produced by J.J. Abrams (LOST). But I forgot to post it, and now I was reminded by an article on Flix (German only) to write about it. I really like postapocalyptic drama. THE ROAD, CHILDREN OF MEN and in a way THE HUNGER GAMES as well – …
The Writer’s Journey revisited
I have to admit, I am no big fangirl of Christopher Vogler’s “Hero’s Journey“. At least as long as someone tries to fit his or her idea into this theorie, no matter what – but that will not work with any other screenwriting theory as well. I find it very strange that many diagrams on the Hero’s Journey simply convert …
The Art Of Title Sequences
While series like LOST and GLEE do not have a real title sequence apart from the name of the show shown on screen, other series and films have really great and often artistic opening sequences, like DEXTER, TRUE BLOOD and MAD MEN. Here is the great title sequence from TRUE BLOOD. I have seen it so many times now, and …
Ken Burns On Story
I have to admit that I did not know why the Ken Burns effect in iMovie is called “Ken Burns effect”. Now I learned that there is a filmmaker called Ken Burns who was the first to use this effect frequently in his movies. Alright. Now here he is, talking about how to tell great stories. So what makes a …
Recommendation: WRITE, WRITE, WRITE
Today I want to point you to the great blog by screenwriter Daniel Martin Eckhart. We worked together on WOLFSFÄHRTE, a tv movie based on the novel BROTHERS GRIMM by Craig Russell, written by Daniel (and directed by Urs Egger)*. I really like Daniel’s attitude – determined, creative and very skilled. And he shares his insights in lengthy articles in …
Trailerwatch: THE GREAT GATSBY
I am really looking forward to the new Buz Luhrman extravaganza. Music, colours, costumes galore! Triple-yay!
Trailerwatch: THE MASTER
P. T. Anderson is back. Joaquin Phoenix is back. Yay.
Inspiration
14 months without an update is not what you expect from writing a blog. I really want to try to post more regularly in the future, I promise. I am starting with a little bit of inspiration. Thanks to witer Daniel Martin Eckhart, who shared this photo on Facebook. After some research I found the original image by Joel Robinson. …