Posts Tagged ‘Screenplay’

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    The Screenplay of “The Stoneman Murders”
    As requested by Amanda, Yaatri, Ram and other readers, here is the Screenplay & Dialogues of ‘THE STONEMAN MURDERS’. I sincerely hope that it is of some help to aspiring filmmakers/scriptwriters attempting to write something in the suspense/thriller or real-life-police-case genre. I feel that one learning that can definitely be obtained from this script is –...
    by Manish Gupta at October 26th, 2009 at 04:10 pm
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    Unregulated Independence
    In no other field of work do you witness such a plethora of posturing, a surfeit of self-serving delusion as in the realm of Independent cinema.  There I have said it! After I had been hired, following yet another terrific round of auditions by yet another Independent Producer/Director all set to make their Film Festival Circuit movie, I got the dreaded, rather by now,...
    by Tori Roy at October 1st, 2009 at 07:10 pm
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    The Screenplay of Amitabh Bachchan’s “Sarkar”
    As requested by readers here’s the screenplay in PDF format and following below is the text version of the same. SARKAR screenplay & dialogues pdf S A R K A R
    by Manish Gupta at September 25th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
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    Copyduties
    It was heartening to read about ‘unassignable rights’ etc being accorded to writers and lyricists in yesterday’s newspaper.(‘HRD Ministry moots royalty rights for singers, lyricists, directors’. Anubhuti Vishnoi, The Indian Express September 7 2009) Heartening especially because I happened to be in the audience at the first Indian Screenwriters’ conference...
    by nadi at September 8th, 2009 at 03:09 am
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    How to tell if your script is good or bad?
    How to tell if your script is good or bad ??? Show it to 10 people.. and they’ll all have varying opinions. None of the opinions will match, and the exercise would leave you even more confused, rather than giving you clarity of thought. People will say that it’s nice.. but needs to be improved upon.. where ?? how ?? Someone will say the script kept me hooked...
    by struggler at September 7th, 2009 at 04:09 pm
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    For all the unlucky Pinki’s… script for a short film
    Prologue: This year, Smile Pinki (by Megan Mylan) got an Oscar for best short documentary. It was about a poor girl, Pinki, who got her cleft lip surgically corrected, thereby saving her from a lifetime of ridicule and ostracism.  http://passionforcinema.com/smile-pinki-2009-and-dr-murari-mukherji-a-pioneer-of-cleft-lip-and-palate-surgery-in-india/ Though I had felt...
    by Rahul Surendran at August 3rd, 2009 at 08:08 am
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    Craft Gyaan: Writing Scene Description
    Screenwriter John August (Go, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) takes you through how to make a scene description better. Invaluable advice.
    by Nikhil. V at June 23rd, 2009 at 11:06 pm
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    How to script a screenplay
    Ok, this is no “how to” post and I am obviously no expert. Yes, I have written a couple of scripts, make that four, but since they are unproduced they are not applicable. Recently I have had the privilege of spending time and co-writing a script with one of the best film-makers of the country, certainly the best scriptwriter around. I don’t want to take...
    by Pratim D. Gupta at April 25th, 2009 at 01:04 am
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    Conversation Series – Screenplay cheating or great cinematic ambitions?
    Dazed & Confused ———- Action and Dialogue. That’s what a screenplay should contain. You don’t have the luxury to write what you want, only what the audience can see or hear. That makes a screenplay less readable than your average novel. But to do otherwise, would be cheating or a great challenge cinematically. See below, an extract from...
    by DPac at March 23rd, 2009 at 12:03 pm
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    Quality difference in screenplays in different languages
    iView Author: temple oak (New Delhi, India) Email: turn360degree [at] hotmail [dot] com I have heard repeated comparison in kerala that tamil movies are much ahead of malayalam in terms of script quality. what is the real difference between those two? And how do they compare with current Hindi and Indian english movies? I think the strength of tamil movies is in their...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 8th, 2008 at 02:12 pm
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    Great Screenplay Ingredients- Case Study- ‘The Omen’
    I’ve just been reading all the columns at wordplayer.com and if you are an aspiring screenwriter, suggest that you do the same. Invaluable advice, there. What I also did quite recently, was read the screenplay of ‘The Omen’. Remember the movie- Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner? Written by David Seltzer and directed by Richard Donner? It’s a fantastic screenplay...
    by Anand Bharadwaj at July 11th, 2008 at 12:07 am
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    SANKALAN : Time for a script Lab in India
    Had been to Cinemax Versova yesterday, Anupama Bose from Baiscope Entertainment had sent a very interesting invite. Let me share it with you all. The press conference was held at The Red Lounge -Cinemax Versova. The brochure which they have made is comprehensive enough for a person to know the whys? and hows? Of Sankalan. At the press conference there was some questions...
    by Vasan Bala at May 19th, 2008 at 09:05 pm
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