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October 12th, 2010 - 9:22 pm § in Film School, Filmmaking, Screenwriting

Student Film Archetypes: The Magical Stranger

I have seen a lot of student shorts in the last few years. After a while you begin to see recurring storylines, styles and characters. This is about one of those characters. The Magical Stranger narrative proceeds as follows: We are introduced to a protagonist (hopefully) with a problem; be it their[...]

July 12th, 2010 - 3:52 pm § in Contemporary Short Films, Filmmaking, Screenwriting

10 Problems With Student Scripts

After my first year at film school I have spent a lot of time with short screenplays. I’ve written around 20 or so at this point, and have dealt with almost all of these difficulties in my own writing. In the last few years I’ve seen a lot of short films, and these are the [...][...]