Month / June 2015
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Designing The Bowling Themes – Big Brothers Big Sisters
Bit of a throwback with this one. Really, this one job sparked an resurgence in my design career like nothing else has before or since. When Chantal at Big Brothers Big Sisters…
June 29, 2015 -
Reviews @Talentville: The Snake
Here’s a review I did last year for T’ville member Scott Vasey. He’s since revamped the script with all the reviews received by myself and over a dozen other reviewers… and to…
June 28, 2015 -
Review Checklist pt 7 – Writing Style and Wrap-Up
And here we reach the final sections. Writing Style is a slider… Wrap-Up is just an extra category that I created to let me talk about stuff that didn’t fit elsewhere. WRITING…
June 28, 2015 -
Review Checklist pt 6 – Dialogue
As with Character, the dialogue’s a little short on points: Do the characters speak with unique voices, not just with affectations and speech patterns, but do they speak from a worldview specific…
June 27, 2015 -
Review Checklist pt 5 – Structure
Ah. Structure. I think that could be a book unto itself. Certainly there are different schools of thought. To many, and really, myself, typically structure is all about the types of events…
June 27, 2015 -
Review Checklist pt 4 – Characters
Well… I must admit, I was surprised to see how short my section on characters was in the checklist. I find myself checking to see if something was deleted. But, nope. It…
June 25, 2015 -
Review Checklist pt 3 – Story
The second area with the sliding scale (1-10) on Talentville is Story. There’s definitely a lot here: Did you just read a story or a collection of scenes? Big difference. While I don’t…
June 23, 2015 -
Review Checklist pt 2 – Concept
One of the areas you mark a script at Talentville is on Concept. I assembled the following list of prompts to help the reviewer (usually me) delve into whether the concept (the…
June 22, 2015 -
Reviewing Scripts at Talentville pt 1
I’m not currently terribly active, but I’m a top reviewer over at Talentville, a community for screenwriters developed by Final Draft creator Ben Cahan. Last May, I got tired of seeing exceedingly…
June 22, 2015
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