Detour

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How to Develop the Story Beats in Your Screenplay

Before we discuss how to develop story beats in a screenplay, let's start with a cold realization: On the surface, directing…

5 years ago
  • Directing

A Script Is No Longer Enough: Why First-Time Feature Directors Must Make a Proof-of-Concept

For anyone who's just purchased their first copy of Final Draft, the notion of the spec script still feels like…

8 years ago
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  • How They Did It

How They Did It: Inserting Cuts into a Oner in Don’t Look Back

Microbudget director William Dickerson (Detour, The Mirror, Shadowbox) doesn't believe in the traditional mandate to get as much as coverage…

9 years ago
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Edward Dmytryk, Odd Man Out

Prior to the days when movies were amalgams of past movies, the clash between genre and auteur, between the classic…

28 years ago