Flight Beat Sheet
Thanks to Master Cat! Ben Frahm, who will be teaching at our one-day seminar on January 26, 2013, for this keen breakdown of the Denzel Washington starrer. Writer: John Gatins Director: Robert Zemeckis Genre: RITES OF PASSAGE (ROP): “LIFE PROBLEM, WRONG WAY ACCEPTANCE” SUB-GENRE: ADDICTION...
An Interactive Arrangement: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Video Game Storytelling
Guest blogger Tim Poon is a writer and professional dodgeball player from Dallas, Texas. Formerly an editor of The Daily Toreador newspaper, he currently freelances for various magazines and websites and specializes in critical analyses of video games, though you may have seen some short...
A Writer’s Five Stages of Rejection
1. Assume the rejection is a complete mistake. Several quick phone calls/voicemails, texts, and follow-up emails should clear-up the misunderstanding. 2. A sudden rush of rejection-rage: “The audacity, the empty-headed arrogance.” This feeling inspires several clever revenge plot lines, two of which you jot down...
Axe Cop – The Animated Series
Congrats to Ethan Nicolle, who wrote a wonderful blog for us last November. Here’s a story — and first look — at the upcoming animated series based on Axe Cop. He’s with his younger brother Malachai above (photo by Molly McIsaac). Way to go, Ethan!
Save the Cat! Goes to the Dark Side
Called “Hollywood’s hardest working filmmaker” by talk show host Casey Ryan, guest blogger Anne Lower has written and directed for the stage and screen; her plays have won awards in Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Oklahoma City, and Denver. She has had screenplays reach finalist...
What Color Is Your Cat?
Our guest blogger, Michael Kurinsky, worked at Walt Disney Feature Animation for nine years as a background painter until 2004, when he joined Sony Pictures Animation as a Visual Development Artist on the 2006 release, Open Season. Michael art directed Sony’s 2009 release, Cloudy with a...
From the Best of Blake’s Blogs: All the Way Back
What to do when that big, emotional uplift you’ve wanted at the end is missing.
Snowden and White #1
Congratulations to screenwriting duo Juliet Snowden & Stiles White (Knowing) for knocking The Expendables 2 off the box office pedestal. Their film The Possession has been #1 at the box office for the last 2 weeks! Last year, screenwriter and Master Cat! Alvaro Rodriguez interviewed...
Using Screenplay Techniques in Novel-Writing
How a writer uses "Save the Cat!" to write novels.
