Posts Tagged ‘Screenwriting’

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    Bangalore Screenwriting Workshop
    It all started when I couldn’t attend a workshop due to personal reasons. A wonderful experience I missed, which could have added a lot to my learning curve. And then I learnt that I wasn’t the only one, there were many more like me who couldn’t attend the workshop due to various reasons like other commitments or not getting selected/listed etc. Then the idea of...
    by Arvind kamath at November 5th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
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    ScriptWalla Workshop
    The second session of the ScriptWalla workshop will start on October 15, 2009. Run by Kamlesh Pandey and Ben Rekhi, the workshop will last 8 weeks and will be held every Saturday and Sunday from 11 AM to 1 PM so people with jobs don’t have to hesitate in enrolling. Anyone interested in further details and/or would like to apply for the workshop, visit http://scriptwalla.com/....
    by Amanda Sodhi at September 7th, 2009 at 04:09 pm
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    Craft Gyaan Podcasts: Lars and the real girl
    A fascinating discussion with screenwriter Nancy Oliver about her debut feature ‘Lars and the real girl’. She talks to force-of-nature Jeff Goldsmith, Sr. Ed. Creative Screenwriting Magazine about the film, how she wrote it, character arcs, motivations and a lot of other things…a must listen. Can’t get better than this if you want to understand...
    by Nikhil. V at June 30th, 2009 at 12:06 am
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    Writer’s Block, A Cure and Some Juvenile Poetry
    I HAVE TO CONFESS. I’ve finally been infected. I was dreading it would happen to me someday.  There’s a disease which  strikes us writer’s once in a while, or may be more than just once in a while.  It’s happened to a few people I’ve known.  I also now know that it’s happened to so many people I’ve never known, but still somehow know,  because...
    by Arun Prakash at June 22nd, 2009 at 10:06 am
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    The ‘character versus plot’ debate in scriptwriting
    iView Author: ScriptLarva (New Delhi, India) Email: turn360degree [at] hotmail [dot] com The ‘character versus plot’ debate in scriptwriting (Warning: spoilers for Dev.D, Race, Swades) A lot has been said about this. But I thought I should add some points. Basically the debate is whether development of a story starts from a set of interesting characters...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at June 2nd, 2009 at 10:06 am
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    Excellence in Indian Screenwriting- What will it take?
    From Rediff- Kamal Haasan, in association with the Indian Institute of Technology- Madras (IIT-M) will present a first-of-its-kind international workshop and seminar on screenwriting in the IIT campus in Chennai from May 29 to June 3, 2009. Undoubtedly another good initiative but how much will it really change the reality? This post will try and look at more issues plaguing...
    by Anand Bharadwaj at April 23rd, 2009 at 09:04 am
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    Writing a jhakaas scene
    Most amateur, and many professional screenplays are dull, Dull, DULL! Characters state the obvious, don’t really do anything but spout exposition, and “exchange soulful looks,” “have a look of great determination,” or my favorite, “sea of emotions washes across his face – denial, sadness, anger, resignation (can’t remember...
    by dabba at March 5th, 2009 at 12:03 am
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    FWA-WWI Screenwriting Workshop
    The Filmwriters Association is holding a screenwriting workshop from February 23 – 27 at Whistling Woods, Film City, Mumbai. Click here to download the details.
    by oz at February 5th, 2009 at 10:02 am
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    Screenwriting Bradley Effect
    I like to waste my time drinking and shooting the shit with chiqs, but a writer’s group will do in a pinch. I used to go to a lot of them. It was a habit. A fix. And there were no cute girls. Ever. They made me feel good about myself cos I could see that I was just as bad as everyone else. The difference though, I reveled in my baddery. In the 2 years that I wasted,...
    by dabba at January 10th, 2009 at 04:01 pm
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    Storytelling Jeopardy!
    About 5 years ago, I managed to con my employer into sending me on a culinary tour of Mexico with celebrity chefs. I falsely thought that this was my talent. I could convince people to finance my whims, with a subsequent ill-advised foray into filmmaking. During that tour, I sampled a lot of dishes whose complexity boggled and left me with a perpetual “wow”...
    by dabba at November 19th, 2008 at 01:11 pm
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    An Experiment in screenwriting
    If it is a game – come and play. If it is a challenge – come challenge yourselves. If it is a creative outlet – Express yourself. Call it whatever you may, I will call it a creative collaboration of enthusiastic minds. The experiment is simple. There have been many such experiments done in other platforms – for story writing. Some of you might have...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at April 16th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
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    How to write Naach-Gaana?
    After yet another rejection of yet another offbeat screenplay (breakdancing gangstas, ichchadari nags with superpowers, indian zombies, refrigerators that molest little girls, romance between a guy and a dog, serial killer on a shopping spree, etc., not all in the same movie though), I decided to sell out (and hopefully sell a screenplay) by writing a mainstream movie....
    by dabba at April 10th, 2008 at 01:04 pm
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