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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...
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...
Favorite Class: Producing with Summer Shelton
Summer is a working professional who taught the basics of line producing. We used Movie Magic Budgeting and Scheduling to create a budget (group project) and shooting schedule for a film Ms. Shelton had already produced in NYC. I watched it on...
I'm checking into FilmSchool.org during one of my very few nights off. I'm streaming THE WRONG PARIS on Netflix and it's hitting all it's Netflix Original marks. I would love to write one of these films. But first I have several other original fantasy and dark comedy projects I have to attend...
Last night, our class screened our rough cuts for our Production 1 films. We had snacks and cheered and some people had to rush off to help a third-year work on his thesis film.
I’m mostly happy with what got shot and I think the whole short will be made in post-production. Principal...
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