As any aspiring screenwriter knows, the process of writing a movie script isn’t easy. But if you break it down into its discrete parts—the type of script, a strong premise, solid plot, believable ...

A screenplay is the written version of a film or an episode of television. Simple, right? Wrong. Unlike a completed work, such as a novel or a short story, a screenplay is the first in a long series ...

Carrie Fisher has had a long career in Hollywood, spanning from her breakout role as Princess Leia in “Star Wars: A New Hope” in 1977, to various guest spots and voice over roles on “30 Rock”, “Family ...

When Scott Frank was a child, his father, Barry, bought a small Cessna airplane, and on weekends the two of them would fly. This was the mid-nineteen-seventies, in Los Gatos, California. Barry was a ...

There’s a moment in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child-- the new play resurrecting Harry and friends onstage in London, and published as a script-book -- when Harry and his old rival Draco Malfoy are ...

How exciting that you're venturing into writing a radio or television commercial. Writing for broadcast media is significantly different from writing a print or digital ad. For the first time, you're ...

“Where was it, Denise?” asked Tom, the quiet director. “The left side,” I answered. “Where? Show us.” This was from Andy, the punk assistant director with stringy hair. “On the left,” I replied. “Come ...

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In my previous post, I showed you how to create a clickable button in Excel. That button displayed a simple message box. Now, I want to show you how to use the button to kick off a PowerShell script.

If you have every used the Command Line, or CMD, interface in Windows, you probably have some idea of the powerful things it can do. Creating your own CMD scripts, you can do even more, but faster. A ...