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
Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...1