Could Flight Have Soared Higher?
This wonderful movie didn't quite deliver on its promise -- and Tom Reed is about to explain why, hopefully in a positive spirit you'll accept on a slope that might be a touch slippery.
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...
Music in the Movies: How Scores and Songs Reflect the Blake Snyder Beat Sheet
Our thanks to guest blogger Cory Milles for this astute and lyrical post. It is said that music is the universal language. It is also the language of the Blake Snyder Beat Sheet. After reading Michael Kurinsky’s masterful blog post about how color in animation...
3 Indie Tips from Jennifer Zhang, Writer/Producer of Dead Inside
Jennifer Zhang shares the process she used to write her new film.
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.
Mike and Ira Save the Cat
Our guest blogger, Rick Drew, began as an assistant director, working on such films as Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven, the original Superman, and Robert Altman’s Buffalo Bill and the Indians. Since attending The American Film Institute to pursue a career as a writer/producer, he has...
Creating an Anti-Hero: Save the Cat! Saves the Day
Guest blogger Master Cat! Anne Lower has had a very busy time lately. She is moving her project They Live Among Us episodes 4-6 through post, shopping a reality/adventure show and a one-hour cable drama with her partner, Geoff Reeves, recently Line Produced the indie...
Best of Blake: His “Second Take” on Christopher Nolan’s Memento
If there’s a single section in Save the Cat! that riles up readers, it’s Blake’s comments on Memento. Boy, did he get emails about that! As time wore on, Blake solidified his opinions about the film and what he wanted to say about it in...
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