All posts by Ashley Scott Meyers
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First Draft: Ask Yourself These Four Questions Before Cooking Up Your Screenplay’s Antagonist
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. It seems like movie villains are a... -
First Draft: How to Use the Rule of Three in Action Sequences
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Three is a very satisfying number. In... -
First Draft: Learn to Write a Satisfying Third Act from Return of the Jedi
In partnership with the blog ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Screenwriters have love-hate relationships with... -
First Draft: The Difference Between Necessary and Unnecessary Dialogue
In partnership with the blog ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Let’s talk about talk. Specifically,... -
First Draft: How to Introduce Multiple Characters in a Single Scene
In partnership with the blog ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Here is a writing exercise...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles...Inside the Issue: Directing
Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s...