Specs & The City: The Threshold Guardian Archetype and ‘The Princess Bride

By: Brad Johnson | May 21, 2014
 The primary benefit of utilizing archetypes when developing the characters for your screenplay is their universality. By basing your characters, no matter how outlandish or unique, on an archetype model, you’re making it easier for your audience to identify with them; to see part of themselves, or the people they know, or the situation’s they’ve been in, within the world you’ve created. There’s nothing more powerful than that when it comes to storytelling.

Previously, I talked about The Herald and their role in getting the plot moving, and now that your hero has decided to undertake the journey laid out before them it’s time to take a look at…MORE...

Radford and Bruce "Maya" Webisode

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Ed Burns, New Era Distribution Pioneer

 by Scott Macaulay in Distribution, Filmmaking on Dec 20, 2012

If you had asked me in the early days of Filmmaker which director would go on to be the one creating a micro-budget, self-sustaining business model, I’m not sure I would have answered “Ed Burns.” His The Brothers McMullen was realized for pennies and broke through the mainstream with Fox Searchlight at its back, and from that point on, Burns seemed to be set for the mainstream studio world. He acted in Saving Private Ryan, married supermodel Christy Turlington, and embarked on a follow-up feature starring Cameron Diaz. MORE...

Audrey Apple - Test Web Pilot

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HOLLY WEBER AS "AUDREY APPLE"

Writer’s Voice: Frozen – Do You Want To Build A Screenplay?

By: Jacob Krueger | May 2, 2014 - Script Magazine

Building a career as a writer means learning to write on assignment.  But how do you hold on to your unique voice as a writer, while still delivering the elements big budget Hollywood producers are demanding?  In this Podcast, Award Winning Screenwriter Jacob Krueger shows you how the screenplay for Disney’s Frozen gets away with breaking all the rules, while still delivering on the promise of “the most conventional genre of them all” – The Disney Princess Musical. MORE...

"Near Hollywood Tours" Short Film

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