So much for the calendar, it remains unseasonably cold – which according to a local forecaster gives us more opportunity for record-breaking – but here’s some additional warmth from enlivened clichés (with the original in italics):
The Educator’s Perspective:
“You can watch a film just for fun, and then you can watch it again and start breaking it down with the timer on your DVD player to see what kinds of things happen at certain times and to look for patterns. You can get a simple book, like one of those Syd Field books, and see if things are actually falling on these different structural places. But it’s a dangerous thing too, because I find that a lot of people wrote great screenplays without having to know all of these structural paradigms, so you want to balance that with still enjoying film and writing from your heart. (more…)
(a) “The word screenwriting is a kenning, which means it’s a composite of two nouns… Everybody focuses on the screen part, because it’s Hollywood and it’s fun and it’s money and it’s fame… (more…)
Last evening those of us who have been aficionados of Saturday Night Live, either limitedly through the myriad casts, or like myself more or less continually from the beginning, had an opportunity to revisit its history over a three and one-half hour broadcast marathon. (more…)
It remains cold outside, but here’s the warmth of more enlivened clichés (with the original in italics):
Here’s a dozen lesser appreciated quotes for Valentine’s Day:
the watch of time 
Memorable Quotes: Tales of Screenwriters – Part Three
The Nicholl Fellowships annual screenwriting contest, has as many as six thousand scripts submitted each year. About 50 readers review and grade them, with only 5% making it to the quarterfinal stage. Ten scripts make it to the finals. A committee then selects five scripts which are awarded scholarships. (more…)
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