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Issue
6 was the last issue of our first year and our second year promises to be even
better. Future issues of ScriptWriter will continue with regular
articles on genre, audiences, legal matters, reports from the Hollywood coal
face and reviews of important films, books, television drama, events and
websites.
Specific
feature articles will:
Explore in depth the critical differences between the way movies are written and
developed here and the way they are written and developed in the USA.
Expose the black art of television scheduling: why it is so important (even
though writers can do little about it except understand what the schedulers are
looking for).
Find out if the three-act structure is really important and what you need to
know before you deviate from it to make your story accessible and compelling
Demonstrate how to write treatments that will sell your ideas and create the
internal structure so that when you start to write the script it writes itself.
Explain why pitching is so important and how to make pitching improve your
writing.
Show why negotiating strategies should be of interest to every writer: even if
you have an agent you should still know how to control a meeting, cut to the
chase in a negotiation and be able to play brinkmanship, because if you don’t
do it your characters will be doing it.
Explore body language: what every scriptwriter should know about the signals
they give off and how to read the other person’s.
Discuss what is involved in writing documentaries that have a three act
structure.
Look at the horror film genre of M. Night Shyamalan (Director of The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable,
Signs).
Character Development: what questions to ask of your characters so that they
will change during the story.
Reveal the real Hollywood: what do they really want, what are their fears and
tastes.
Does it make a difference how many gags or laugh lines are in your sitcom –which
sitcoms top the laughter charts.
Show that the audience’s journey does not necessarily coincide with that of
the hero.
Reveal the truth about script readers and development executives: how many
scripts do they read a year and what do they look for: They start reading each
script knowing that the chances of it actually being produced is less than 1%.
Who will be watching what in the future?
Trend Spotting: how it can help secure script-writing success.
Cultural
Tipping Points: what emerging lifestyle trends will influence the audience's
interest and their entertainment needs.
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