Just Effing Entertain Me (Coffee Break Podcasts)
Summary: Learn about the art, craft and business of screenwriting with warmth, humor and insight. In-depth interviews, varying perspectives and gems of knowledge garnered through hard-earned experience. Julie Gray and her colleagues within the entertainment industry enlighten, entertain and inform. The founder of The Script Department, Hollywood’s premier script coverage service, Julie also directs the Silver Screenwriting Competition and authors the popular screenwriting blog, Just Effing Entertain Me. Julie consults privately with a wide variety of writers and teaches classes at Warner Bros., The Great American PitchFest, The Creative Screenwriting Expo and San Francisco University in Quito, Ecuador. Julie lives in Los Angeles, California; her book Just Effing Entertain Me is slated for release in late 2010.
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Podcasts:
Set goals for your writing career and imagine the future writer you want to be.
We’ve all got a drawer full of them. What went wrong?
Ideas to help re-imagine elements of your script when you need a complete do-over.
Tips on staying organized and focused when you rewrite.
Don’t miss out on an opportunity to give your characters names with subtext, irony and meaning.
Your character’s home speaks volumes about them. Don't miss an opportunity for excellent shorthand.
It’s not just film theory – it matters.
Every character had something going on in his or her life on “page negative one.”
Technical jobs or settings don’t have to be 100% realistic. Audience expectations pave the way for shorthand.
How much is too much?
Make sure that every word you choose in every scene you write supports the genre in a consistent way.
An interview with the 2010 Grand Prize Winner of the Silver Screenwriting Competition.
An interview with I Could Have Written a Better Script Than That author, Derek Rydall, about the Law of Emergence and staying positive in Hollywood.
Write about what (and where) you know but make sure the setting you choose is as entertaining as possible for your story.
Take the expense and profitability of your idea into consideration before you complete your script.
