author & screenwriter
When I was living in London, I used to catch the Tube to work. Everyone did, and often I’d bump into my work colleagues either on the train or as we got off at the station and walked to the office together. There was an editor who worked in our office for a few months …
Thanks to the advent of Netflix in Australia (finally), I can once again legally watch all of the television shows and movies I want. Having Netflix whilst I was living in the UK, then moving back to Australia and surviving without it for the last two years, it now makes me appreciate it even more. …
The phrase ‘kill your babies’ is one that often gets thrown around in writing and filmmaking. It basically means that you shouldn’t get too attached to your ideas because every once in awhile, you’ll have the best idea you’ve ever had in your life – your career, even – and you’ll want to keep it. …
I’m not ashamed – I’m going to go right out there and say it. I watched three movies this weekend. Three. Sure, the sun was out. Yeah, I probably had housework to do. But I swung by my local Blockbuster and got a bunch of DVDs to watch instead. You might say lazy. I say …
One key thing that can often throw a reader out of a script is characters acting…well…out of character. Imagine if you knew someone who was a bouncer at a night club. It’s a Saturday night. 4am. A bunch of drunk revellers stumble out and suddenly there’s a full scale brawl happening in front of your …
Sorry for the blog silence over the past few weeks. I’ve been in the process of moving my life from London back to Australia which has been a rather massive undertaking. I am now, however, back in my home town of Melbourne, Australia, trying to figure out how to start again. It’s been a really …
I recently put the call out on Twitter to see if there we any requests for topics (if you have any of your own, feel free to add them into the Comments) and a post on world building was asked for. The world is the place where your characters are interacting. They can vary from …
And nor should it be. A film should be about the most important moment in your characters lives. If it’s not, they why aren’t you writing about that instead? If it’s the most important moment of their lives, it means that there’s a lot at stake. And I don’t mean a lot, I mean A …
I was asked by an old friend of mine, Lori, the other day how I created characters. This was a bit of a weird question to answer for me, because I really had to figure out what I did. Stories and characters come very naturally to me and I can safely say that I don’t …
Sorry for the radio silence over the past two weeks, but I’m back and ready to go! A quick update on where we’re at with the film: We’ve had to shift the shoot date by two weeks, due to a couple of little things popping up, so we are now not shooting until November. This …