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From the Over Describer to the Compulsive Recapper: Eight Screenwriting Mess-ups to Avoid
Many of the most common mistakes found in screenplays are also easy to rectify. So if you are working on a screenplay of your own, make sure that you do not fall into one of these traps. 1) The Compulsive “We See-er” We see an eyeball staring directly at us. The Issue: Let us not forget...- GPCW Screenwriting
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'Quiz on the Art of Screenwriting' quiz
I've read over a thousand screenplays in my career in development and story analysis, and it's always interesting to think about how effectively stories can come across on the page. This quiz has a variety of concepts to consider as you craft screen stories. Read our interview with James Napoli...- film and tv mfa screenwriting screenplay writing screenwriting storytelling
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Flashbacks vs. Monologues and Other Points of Contention
By James Napoli. Flashbacks Nothing provokes a more knee-jerk “don’t do it” reaction from screenwriters than the decision to include one or more flashbacks in one’s screenplay. We can, of course, understand this compulsion to remain linear, and the gut instinct that to tell the story from...- GPCW Screenwriting
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Surprise or Suspense
By James Napoli As the head of our Screenwriting MFA at Western, I thought it would be interesting to post some articles on screencraft for your review. I hope you find them helpful! I had an interesting experience while binge-watching the first two seasons of the beautifully acted and tonally...- GPCW Screenwriting
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Hello From our Low-Residency MFA in Screenwriting!
Hi, everyone, I’m James Napoli, the Director of the Screenwriting MFA at the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University. I checked with Chris, our peerless FilmSchool.org administrator, to see if it was okay for someone like me (the head of the MFA program itself), to...- GPCW Screenwriting
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Western Colorado University Graduate Program in Creative Writing - Screenwriting MFA
As one of five concentrations in Western’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing, the Screenwriting concentration provides a supportive literary home for writers who see stories in motion. Grounded in the power of visual storytelling, the program offers a welcoming, creatively rigorous...- GPCW Screenwriting
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“Format” in your stories
This is something that bug me for a while... a while ago I was told by a teacher that I couldn’t end a story without “hope” (or “light”) and couldn’t end a story without protagonists having some changes at the end. I disagreed with him and still disagree with him now (I mean, look at films like...- mol31203
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Columbia University MFA Film : FALL 2017
Hey all, I hope everybody who celebrates Thanksgiving had a wonderful holiday. The application deadline is a few short days away so I wanted to create a thread for those of us interested in the Columbia MFA film program. It would be great to have folks to talk to during the next couple of...- EclecticMel21
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