At the moment there is a lot of fuzz on the internet about a social experiment. The question is: can you fall in love with anybody, if you spend time together, answer 36 questions and look into each others eyes for 4 minutes in the end? The answer is: Yes, it works. If you are interested in the scientific facts, …
What is a scene?
One of my script consulting teachers, Don Bohlinger, professor at the USC film department, taught me this: “Each scene is either a chase or an escape.” It is not only true for scenes with actual chases in action movies, but for basically every scene with more than one characters in it, and it is even true for scenes with a …
On Pitching
From time to time I am giving lectures on pitching a story. I think I can stop that now, because most of the things you need to know are being said in this video. Writer and director Tony Gilroy hears a few loglines and gives his opinion on the storylines. Footnote: Please let us not forget that making a movie …
How To Pitch A Movie
This is making the rounds on the internet at the moment, and indeed it is hilarious. Nobody ever pitched a movie to me like that. Did you try this yourself once?