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Archive for December, 2008
Merry Christmas from Iowa
Posted in screenwriting, tagged AFI, Beford Falls, Denison, Donna Reed, Iowa, It's a wonderful life on December 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When I was taking photos of this house just a few blocks from my own house on Christmas eve three different vehicles pulled up and people went inside. One child yelled “grandpa” as an older man opened the door. A slice of Bedford Falls (It’s Wonderful Life) right here in Cedar Falls.
Speaking of Bedford Falls [...]
Screenwriting from High School
Posted in screenwriting, tagged Alec Greven, Anne Lamott, Class, Claude McKnight, Florida, Fotomat, high school screenwriters, How to talk to girls, Jason Street, Lake Howell High School, middle school screenwriting, Nikki Reed, Scott Porter, Screenwriting in high school, Take 6, Thirteen, Winter Park on December 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I returned to Lake Howell High School in Winter Park, Florida where I graduated from years ago to talk to five classes and around 350 students total. The groups were a mix of students in video and TV production, radio, graphic design, journalism and entrepreneurship. Since Lake Howell was where I took my first photography class and [...]
Screenwriting & Contrasts (tip #18)
Posted in screenwriting, screenwriting tips, tagged A Place in the Sun, Cedar Falls, Cold Manor Creek, CONTRAST=CONFLICT, Donnie & Marie, Elizabeth Taylor, Fatal Attraction, Florida, Hitchcock, Iowa, James Cameron, Jaws, Jim Suthers, Legally Blonde, New Smyrna Beach, screenwriting and contrasts, Shelly Winters, The Godfather, Titanic on December 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“With the exception of My Dinner with Andre, very few films can sustain interest in one type of location for too long. Mix it up with day and night scenes, interiors and exteriors. Too many scenes in one type of location will hypnotize a reader like the centerlines on a highway.
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Screenwriting from Hell
Posted in Screenwriting Road Trips, screenwriting, tagged Air Force, Apocalypse Now, Army, Hitler, Iowa, Irag, Jarhead, Jimmy Buffett, Liz Alani, Marines, MASH, Military Screenwriting, Navy, Pearl Harbor Day, Saving Private Ryan, screenwriting from Iraq, Script magazine, Sending the Anthoy Swofford, Sending the old man home, The Fighting Sullivans, The Five Sullivan Brothers, The Green Beret, The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum, Tom Cruise, University of Iowa, Valkyrie, Vietnam, war is hell, Waterloo, William Broyles Jr., William T. Sherman on December 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.“
Maj. Gen. William T. [...]
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