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The Habit of Respect

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

I read a lot of screenplays.  Granted, most of them are works in progress or student work.  But all of them — without exception — are sloppily presented. The errors range from simple typos that the computer spell-check did not catch (its for it's and there for their) to mismatched character names or repeated chunks [...]

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The Treatment

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

There are two ways to think of a film treatment. Articulating your story — what you know of your story before actually finishing it — to yourself. Pitching the story's potential to someone else. The first is a working document.  The second is a sales document. One is for consumption, one is not. A story [...]

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