Recent content by Sammy

A recommendation: http://www.youtube.com/user/clickokdotcodotuk Over the last year, the guy has started regularly deconstructing movies and putting the videos online. Everyone that I have spoken to that has watched the videos finds them useful.

In story, should good conquer evil? Again, I refer you to the excellent videos at http://www.clickok.co.uk/index4.html ; according to this, the evil is contained at the end which leads to a form of state of perfection and gives you your many catharses - which seems to be the way that...

Understanding Screenplay and Screenwriting Structure If you look at the videos at http://www.clickok.co.uk/index4.html which extols the virtues of the loop - the argument is that the end and beginning are the same, which makes sense from the point of view of writing backwards - you...

Why not have someone else write that character? Lots of really great films have multiple writers and that's because each writer brings his or her own perspective and way of thinking into it.

I think most people do it to try and get published, make a movie etc. But I think alot of people also do it as a form of release / catharsis. I think the best writing really does come from having something to say.

Trilogy. From a financial, marketing and distribution perspective it makes sense.

I plan it out with Kal Bashir's 510+ stage hero's journey and then fill in the gaps. The first draft is not that hard. I make my own films, which means my scripts really are guidelines - each sequence has a function and when that's complete, I end it unless something interesting happens. I would...

They are MUCH, MUCH more alike than you assume. Especially when it comes to writing. They're both manifestations of the same function. In fantasy, when you want someone to appear it's in a puff of smoke; in sci-fi it's via a transporter.