With New Year and a new decade around the corner, many of us are thinking about our resolutions. Maybe they’ll be to finish that screenplay, get your film made, or live a more environmentally-friendly life. Whatever your resolution, it’s almost…
“Nobody knows anything,” wrote William Goldman in 1983. “Not one person in the motion picture field knows for a certainty what’s going to work. Every time out it’s a guess, and if you’re lucky an educated one.” Strong words from…
In my last post I wrote about how one of the most common script notes given to writers is that their main character isn’t engaging or believable. And how using approaches from personality psychology (which I call “Deep Characterisation”) can…
As a result of a high profile celebrity court case earlier this year, a new law governing EIS investments means that investing in UK-produced films has become even riskier. But with good intuition, due diligence and insights gained from data…
One of the notes that writers are most frequently given is that their characters are underdeveloped. And because of this the characters feel unengaging and unbelievable. We all know that the main characters in films and novels need to be…
