Poor old three-act structure. It gets hammered away at, like an old punching bag, every time someone wants to challenge the primacy of the formulaic Hollywood screenwriting methods. “Take that! You ...

Instead, she just says, “Sure!” Like a Jedi learning the force, RA-33 comes to understand the mystic ways of screenwriting. Mandy teaches him how to brainstorm before they move on to the three-act ...

When I wrote my recent feature Test I ignored the usual advice about screenwriting structure. It was a leap of faith and an experiment in not knowing. Compared to earlier writing experiences (a ...

You want to be a screenwriter, yeah, and you've got stories burning inside you. You've maybe read a book or two about three-act structure, bought some screenwriting software, and stared at that blank ...

L.A.-based filmmaker Noam Kroll is currently working on his second feature. He keeps a production blog at his website NoamKroll.com. In this blog post, he writes about focusing on characters in order ...

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