I am often asked -- by someone just starting out, or by a novelist or playwright who is contemplating switching disciplines -- about the best way to begin pursuing a screenwriting career. So here are my 10 steps to begin writing for movies or television. These initial activities won’t force you to mortgage your house, they’ll teach you a lot about both the art and craft of writing movies, and they will give you a good idea if this is truly your calling. Continue reading ...
New Media writers Robert Gustafson and Alec McNayr visited the set of Crackle.com'sAngel of Death. Here director Paul Etheredge explains how he directed a Web series and a feature film simultaneously. Read the complete article in the March/April issue of Script.
Sweet-faced girl next door Robin Matthews has been hired by Harper’s Globe, a small-town newspaper on one of the Puget Sound islands, just outside Seattle. As a member of a generation that lives online, she posts videos about her work, her relationships, and her discovery of a long-kept island secret -- a series of grisly murders from before her time. Meanwhile, a group of masked vigilantes post videos under the name “Dangerous Wreck.” They video themselves sneaking into a house, binding and gagging two young men, and dragging them away. Cut together, the effect is a Blair Witch-type of horrific inevitability. You know that when these two video bloggers eventually meet face-to-face, something really, really bad will happen. Chills.