Posts tagged: voice

A script is like a song and your tone is like the key. Key changes in songs very rarely work, but when they do, in a natural, harmonious way, they rock.
NOTES: 1 7/9/10, 2:27pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-Fyl3YkQ FILED UNDER: #Music  #script  #tone  #voice  #style  Bookmark and Share
Get rid of all that extraneous shit and dive right into the drama.

Karel Segers, The Story Department

7/5/10, 3:06pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-Fyk4LR4 FILED UNDER: #Pace  #voice  #first ten  #act one  #first act  #editing  #rewriting  #drafts  Bookmark and Share
I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come out. But unfortunately you’re stuck with what you’re born with.
Woody Allen
7/5/10, 12:08pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-Fyk2oF0 FILED UNDER: #comedy,  #tragedy,  #drama  #style  #voice  #talent  #woody  #allen  Bookmark and Share
A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
David Mamet
NOTES: 1 7/1/10, 9:53pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-FyjEs9o FILED UNDER: #dialogue  #images  #style  #voice  #film  #screenplays  #movies  #visual  Bookmark and Share
A good name not only helps to create an emotional connection with the character, it gives the audience a greater insight into the meaning of the character's relationship with his world. And even in the case of not giving a character a name, such as Cat, this decision still acts to tell us something important about the protagonist.

Mina Zaher, Writer

7/1/10, 9:49pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-FyjEpNB FILED UNDER: #names  #characters  #meaning  #themes  #voice  #choices  Bookmark and Share
People come home & pick up the remote, wanting to watch a story more confident & self-assured than they are.
Paula Milne, writer, ‘State Of Mind’, ‘Small Island’
NOTES: 3 7/1/10, 5:01pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-FyjBcA4 FILED UNDER: #Confidence  #voice  #audiences  #style  Bookmark and Share
Do it right and breaking the rules can sell your script. (Hit that ‘High Res’ button below)

Do it right and breaking the rules can sell your script. (Hit that ‘High Res’ button below)

6/29/10, 3:00pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-Fyihz4B FILED UNDER: #rules  #books  #originality  #ideas  #style  #voice  #unique  Bookmark and Share
Always be yourself…unless you suck.
Joss Whedon
6/26/10, 5:22pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-Fyi21JO FILED UNDER: #voice  #style  #tone  #what to write  #ideas  Bookmark and Share